This is a single-binary package of the Amazon EKS Distro. One command to install and a second command to cluster, the EKS snap gives you an EKS Distro on rails anywhere you can get Ubuntu machines.
On any recent Ubuntu machine, or another Linux distribution with snap support:
sudo snap install eks
To form a multi-node cluster call eks add-node on any existing cluster
member to get a token, followed by eks join <token> on the new machine.
For optimal compatibility with EKS, this Kubernetes distro will launch a very specific set of component services automatically. These provide a standardised K8s environment that simplifies workload compatibility with EKS on AWS itself.
When you initialize the cluster, it will also fetch and enable:
coredns- DNS services for services on this EKS clustermetrics-server- K8s Metrics Server for API accessstorage- Storage class; allocates storage from host directory
The EKS snap will automatically detect if it is on AWS, and if so it will also enable:
aws-iam-authenticator- login to your cluster with AWS IAM credentials
This EKS Distro is based on MicroK8s. It
has a stripped down set of addons and is designed to feel great for AWS
users only. It assumes you have AWS IAM credentials for identity and
provides default services that are compatible with EKS on EC2. See eks status for component information.