AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service ¶

Create EKS Cluster ¶

Below commands will help you install eksctl binary on ubuntu and use it to create EKS cluster quickly.

# install eksctl
curl --silent --location "https://github.com/weaveworks/eksctl/releases/latest/download/eksctl_$(uname -s)_amd64.tar.gz" | tar xz -C /tmp
sudo mv /tmp/eksctl /usr/local/bin
eksctl version

# create cluster
eksctl create cluster --name vj-eks-1 --version 1.18 --region ap-south-1 --nodegroup-name eks-basic-nodes --nodes 1 --nodes-min 1 --nodes-max 1 --with-oidc --ssh-access --ssh-public-key dharapvv --managed --node-volume-size=30

# delete the cluster when work is done
eksctl delete cluster --name vj-eks-1 --region ap-south-1

Cluster Autoscaler ¶

Follow instructions here to add and test Cluster Autoscaling in EKS

Using AWS EIP CNI and pod networking security via AWS Sec Groups ¶

FIXME - It did not work as per my expectations in my trials

Usage of AWS IAM Authentication (EKS Authentication) ¶

Delete EKS Cluster ¶

eksctl delete cluster --name vj-eks-1 --region ap-south-1