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Deploying Minikube on an AWS instance with Terraform

Deploying Minikube on an AWS instance with Terraform

- For the convenience, it is a ready-to-use deployment. However, most parameters can be adjusted. The purpose is to deploy a Minikube standalone node for the learning purposes quickly.

- Please refer to the official documentation in case you want to use Ubuntu or newer releases: Install Minikube

- Provisioned infrastructure will result in costs

Prerequisites:

• An AWS account and a user with a porgrammatic access;
• A key-pair in the us-east-2;
• Terraform < 0.12;
• All variables that require values are in the terraform.tfvars file;

The repository includes:

• Terraform files for the infrastructure deployment and Minikube configuration:
  • VPC in the us-east-2 with a public subnet and other required services (IGW, RT etc.);
  • EC2 m5.large spot instance in the us-east-2;
  • bootstrap.sh with the installation commands that will be applied to an instance;

Instruction

• Clone a repository;
• Work through prerequisites;
• Deploy with Terraform;
• Wait for ~10 min (m5.large) then ssh to the created instance;
• run minikube status to check that it was installed and started;

Notes

• to create an AWS profile run aws configure --profile chosen-profile-name and enter credentials;
• if you do not see the instance and respective spor request is in the closed state then: terminate infrastracture, change az (a-b-c) and deploy again;