eks-terraform's Introduction

Simple Microservice

A terraform project to setup Elastic Kubernetes Service on AWS

Requirements

For this project, you will AWS Account, Terraform installed on your local machine, access to a terminal.

AWS

AWS Account Creation
1. go on AWS website and signup for an account
2. Setup IAM permissions listed on the EKS module documentation
3. Download AWS CLI to configure your machine with your AWS credentials. Folow the instructions here.
4. Install kubectl. This will be used to access your clusters after it has been deployed. Follow instructions here
TERRAFORM INSTALLATION

Folllow the instructions here to install terraform

PROJECT SETUP

Clone this github repository git clone https://github.com/Lordwales/eks-terraform.git
cd into the eks-terraform directory.
On your terminal while in the root of the repository, run the following commands in sequence:

terraform init       #this will initialize the terrafom project and download the required plugins and create a local backend.

terraform plan       #this will display all the resources that are planed to be deployed on AWS.

terraform apply      # this will run our terraform code and deploy those resources to AWS.

ADD CLUSTER TO KUBECONFIG

aws eks update-kubeconfig --region us-east-1 --name terraformEKScluster

VERIFY DEPLOYMENT

Visit the Elastic Kubernetes Service section in your AWS Console to view the details of the newly created cluster.

IMPROVEMENT

This project can be further improved dby using S3 as backend to store the state of the infrastructure especially in a Team scenerio. Also we can use Terraform Cloud to run the project. This gives more flexibilty, manages our secrets and build, can manage our workspaces too.

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