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How do we train support teams to handle top tickets expected after enabling EKS?

  • Jahan Gagan
  • Oct 14, 2025

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Enabling EKS (Amazon’s managed Kubernetes) usually creates a new class of support tickets, especially from dev teams, product managers, or even customers indirectly hit by infra issues. If you want your support folks ready, don’t dump Kubernetes docs on them — instead, train them around patterns of issues they’ll see, and give them playbooks/macros to respond quickly.

Top Ticket Types You’ll See After EKS Launch

  • App not reachable / 503s → often caused by service misconfigs, bad Ingress rules, or pod crashes.
  • Deployment failures → YAML errors, resource quota exceeded, or nodes not scaling.
  • Scaling issues → cluster-autoscaler not kicking in, pods stuck in Pending.
  • Networking problems → DNS resolution inside cluster, security group/ENI misconfigs.
  • Cost complaints → Why did infra spend spike? when pods scale unexpectedly.
  • RBAC / permissions → devs can’t kubectl what they expect because of tight IAM+K8s RBAC mapping.

What Support Teams Actually Need (vs. SREs)
Your support agents don’t need to debug Kubernetes internals. They need to:

  • Recognize the symptom
  • Check dashboards
  • Use macros to reply: We see your service is impacted due to EKS pod scheduling delays. Engineering has been alerted, ETA update in 15 mins.
  • Escalate properly: tag the right SRE/DevOps team with logs attached

Training Format That Works

  • Cheat Sheets: one-pagers for Service Down, Pod Pending, High Cost, Permission Denied. Each with → how to identify quickly, what to tell the customer, who to escalate to.
  • Mock Tickets: run drills where you drop a fake EKS is down ticket in queue and agents practice triage + macro usage.
  • Dashboards 101: short session on how to read EKS cluster health dashboards, not how to run kubectl describe pod.

Escalation Flow

  • L1 Support: Acknowledge, apply macro, check known incidents page.
  • L2 Infra Support: Pull logs from CloudWatch/Kibana, confirm if it’s cluster-wide or isolated.
  • SRE/DevOps: Deep-dive into cluster scaling, networking, or deployment YAMLs.

Customer-Facing Messaging
Have these macros prepped:

  • Service outage: Some services are temporarily unavailable due to cluster scaling issues. Our infra team is working on it.
  • • Deployment failure: Your deployment hit resource limits. We’ve escalated to engineering to increase quotas
  • Cost spike: We’re reviewing autoscaling activity that led to higher usage. Our ops team will revert with a breakdown.
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  • Oct 15, 2025

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