AWS EKS Tutorial

(for MACOS)

Prerequisites

1 Install awscli

curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/AWSCLIV2.pkg" -o "AWSCLIV2.pkg"
sudo installer -pkg AWSCLIV2.pkg -target /
aws --version

pip3 install awscli --upgrade --user

Set up credentials

Set up an IAM user and give them permissions for EKS
on local computer enter credentials of IAM user:

aws configure

2 Install Install eksctl

(using homebrew )

brew tap weaveworks/tap
brew install eksctl
brew upgrade eksctl && brew link --overwrite eksctl
eksctl version

3 Install and configure kubectl

(already installed by homebrew with eksctl)

SET UP EKS CLUSTER

###Activate AWS STS

Go to console and activate region (https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home?region=us-east-2#/account_settings).

Create Cluster

Note: Using EKS AMI: https://console.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/parameters/%252Faws%252Fservice%252Feks%252Foptimized-ami%252F1.18%252Famazon-linux-2%252Frecommended%252Fimage_id/description?region=us-west-2#

/aws/service/eks/optimized-ami/1.18/amazon-linux-2/recommended/image_id

ami-04f0f3d381d07e0b6

Create launch template

aws ec2 create-launch-template \
    --version-description WebVersion1 \
    --launch-template-name TemplateForEKS2 \
    --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=launch-template,Tags=[{Key=testkey,Value=testval}]' \
    --launch-template-data file://template/launch-config-basic.json \
    --dry-run

Did not use because it throws an error:: --launch-template-name TemplateForEKS \

Add launch config template id to test-eks-cluster.yaml. It will look like this: lt-0428d9790bd720765
Create Cluster

eksctl create cluster --config-file template/test-eks-cluster.yaml

[ℹ]  if you encounter any issues, check CloudFormation console or try 'eksctl utils describe-stacks --region=us-west-2 --cluster=test-cluster'
[ℹ]  CloudWatch logging will not be enabled for cluster "test-cluster" in "us-west-2"
[ℹ]  you can enable it with 'eksctl utils update-cluster-logging --enable-types={SPECIFY-YOUR-LOG-TYPES-HERE (e.g. all)} --region=us-west-2 --cluster=test-cluster'
[ℹ]  Kubernetes API endpoint access will use default of {publicAccess=true, privateAccess=false} for cluster "test-cluster" in "us-west-2"
[ℹ]  2 sequential tasks: { create cluster control plane "test-cluster", 2 sequential sub-tasks: { no tasks, create managed nodegroup "ng-linux" } }
[ℹ]  deploying stack "eksctl-test-cluster-cluster

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