EKS Install NOTE: This is for the lab purpose, not for PROD purpose.
How to provision EKS Cluster? Below software are mandatory to provision EKS Cluster.
- Eksctl
- AWS CLI V2
- Kubectl
Steps:
Create IAM Admin user with CLI access, It generates Access Key and Secret Key. Don't keep this in any version control like Github, Gitlab, etc.
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- Install AWS CLI, by default AWS instance gets V1, We need to upgrade to V2. curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip" unzip awscliv2.zip sudo ./aws/install --bin-dir /usr/local/bin --install-dir /usr/local/aws-cli --update
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Logout and Login again.
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- Install latest eksctl command. curl --silent --location "https://github.com/weaveworks/eksctl/releases/latest/download/eksctl_$(uname -s)_amd64.tar.gz" | tar xz -C /tmp
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sudo mv /tmp/eksctl /usr/local/bin eksctl version
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- Install kubectl command maxium one version less than EKS version. curl -O https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/amazon-eks/1.24.10/2023-01-30/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl chmod +x kubectl sudo mv kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl
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eksctl is the popular tool to provision EKS cluster. We make use of spot instances to save the cost.
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- To create cluster with above config file.
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eksctl create cluster --config-file=[file-name].yaml
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- Don't forget to delete the cluster.
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eksctl delete cluster --config-file=[file-name].yaml