nemahno / kube-tools-aws

A lightweight Docker image with various CLI tooling for working with Kubernetes.

kube-tools-aws

A lightweight Docker image (based on Alpine) that comes with all the tools you need to work with Kubernetes, Helm charts, AWS (awscli), and AWS EKS. Intended to be a flexible foundation of tools for CI/CD workflows.

Included Tools

• kubectl - https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/overview/
• Helm 3 - https://github.com/kubernetes/helm
• Helm S3 plugin - https://github.com/hypnoglow/helm-s3
• awscli https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-welcome.html
• aws-iam-authenticator https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator
• yamllint - https://github.com/adrienverge/yamllint
• yq (YAML parser based on jq) - https://github.com/kislyuk/yq

Example Usage

# start up an image
docker run -it \
  -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="<AWS key>" \
  -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="<AWS secret>" \
  -e AWS_DEFAULT_REGION="us-east-1" \
  -v $(pwd)/.kube/config:~/.kube/config
  jshimko/kube-tools-aws:latest

# the above command drops into a bash shell with
# all of the tooling for the following commands...

# configure kubectl auth for an existing EKS cluster named "my-cluster"
aws eks update-kubeconfig --name my-cluster

# confirm it worked by listing your pods
kubectl get pods --all-namespaces

# or list your helm deployments
helm ls --all-namespaces

# now do stuff for your CI/CD process...