Building a Hybrid LLM Platform on EKS, Part 4: Platform Add-ons, the Load Balancer Controller, and Karpenter
Part 4 of our hands-on EKS series. We install the two add-ons every production EKS cluster needs: the AWS Load Balancer Controller so Kubernetes Ingress objects provision real ALBs, and Karpenter for cost-aware autoscaling — including the GPU NodePool that scales to zero between inference workloads.