Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 as EKS Worker Nodes Setup Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Kubernetes 1.12.7 on AWS EKS Workflow Provision an EC2 Server with RHEL 7.5 AMI. Install the following dependencies. yum install -y git vim yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm yum install -y python-pip pip install --upgrade awscli yum install -y http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/extras/x86_64/Packages/container-selinux-2.68-1.el7.noarch.rpm Clone this repo and Execute install-worker.sh git clone https://github.com/piu28/aws-eks-rhel-workers.git cd aws-eks-rhel-workers sh install-worker.sh Create an AMI of this server. Provision a Cloudformation Stack with the below template provided by AWS: https://amazon-eks.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cloudformation/2019-02-11/amazon-eks-nodegroup.yaml In the parameter "NodeImageId", input the Image ID of the AMI created in the previous step.