Migration Guide
Migrate from EKS to GKE
Migrate Amazon EKS clusters to Google GKE. Remap workload identity, ingress controllers, node pools, and Helm charts.
What you get
Risk assessment
Blockers, warnings, and unknowns ranked by severity
Effort estimate
Hours, t-shirt size, and role breakdown
Cost estimate
Labor, infrastructure, and tooling cost range
Migration steps
Ordered execution plan with durations
Open questions
What still needs to be answered before you start
Draft config or code
Starter configs when the migration path supports it
Why teams migrate from EKS to GKE
Good fit when
- +Teams standardizing on GCP or needing GKE Autopilot for reduced cluster ops.
- +Organizations leveraging GCP-native services (BigQuery, Vertex AI) alongside Kubernetes.
- +Teams wanting tighter integration with Google Cloud's networking and observability.
Strengths
- GKE Autopilot reduces node management overhead significantly.
- Native integration with Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Trace, and GCP networking.
- Workload Identity Federation maps cleanly from IAM Roles for Service Accounts.
Tradeoffs
- EKS add-ons and AWS-specific operators need GKE equivalents.
- AWS ALB Ingress Controller must be replaced with GKE Gateway or nginx.
- Fargate profiles have no direct GKE equivalent (use Autopilot instead).
Migration notes
- Export manifests and Helm charts, then adapt IAM annotations for GKE Workload Identity.
- Translate ALB/NLB ingress to GKE Gateway API or nginx ingress controller.
- Migrate secrets from AWS Secrets Manager to GCP Secret Manager with External Secrets Operator.
- Test node affinity and resource requests in GKE Autopilot or Standard mode.
How it works
Describe your migration
Select EKS as source and GKE as target. Add context about your setup — configs, docs, architecture notes.
Keshro runs the analysis
Keshro researches the path, finds similar past migrations, and generates a structured assessment with risks, effort, cost, and steps.
Get your plan
Review the migration plan, refine it with your team, and use it as a living document during execution.
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