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GitLab can be used to provision an EKS cluster into AWS, however, it necessarily focuses on a basic EKS configuration. Using the AWS tools can help with advanced cluster configuration, automation, and maintenance.
This documentation is not for clusters for deployment of GitLab itself, but instead clusters purpose built for:
- EKS Clusters for GitLab Runners
- Application Deployment Clusters for GitLab review apps
- Application Deployment Cluster for production applications
Information on deploying GitLab onto EKS can be found in [Provisioning GitLab Cloud Native Hybrid on AWS EKS](gitlab_hybrid_on_aws.md).
- Selection of Kubernetes version (the GitLab-managed clusters for your project's applications have [specific Kubernetes version requirements](../../user/clusters/agent/index.md#supported-cluster-versions))
## Inject GitLab configuration for integrating clusters
Read more how to [configure an App Deployment cluster](../../user/project/clusters/add_existing_cluster.md) and extract information from it to integrate it into GitLab.
## Provision GitLab Runners using Helm charts
Read how to [use the GitLab Runner Helm Chart](https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/kubernetes.html) to deploy a runner into a cluster.
## Runner Cache
Since the EKS Quick Start provides for EFS provisioning, the best approach is to use EFS for runner caching. Eventually we will publish information on using an S3 bucket for runner caching here.