provision-aws-eks.adoc

AWS EKS Provision Cluster

Table of Contents

• Step 1: Install and use CLI tools to provision EKS cluster
  • Install eksctl tool
  • Install AWS CLI
  • Create IAM user on AWS
  • Add configs and credentials to your local (MAC) home dir
• Step 2: Provision the cluster
  • Create the cluster

Step 1: Install and use CLI tools to provision EKS cluster

See docs here

The purpose of this doc is to install the tools necessary to provision the EKS cluster, work with the cluster, install Optimize and provision the cluster itself.

Install eksctl tool

brew tap weaveworks/tap

brew install weaveworks/tap/eksctl

Note	you may need to install XCODE

Install AWS CLI

curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/AWSCLIV2.pkg" -o "AWSCLIV2.pkg"

sudo installer -pkg AWSCLIV2.pkg -target /

Create IAM user on AWS

Add configs and credentials to your local (MAC) home dir

See the AWS docs for details

Create the files

• nano ~/.aws/credentials

• nano ~/.aws/config

See the AWS docs for details

• copy the IAM user creds into the file

Step 2: Provision the cluster

Create the cluster

eksctl create cluster --name camunda-cluster --version 1.17 --region us-west-2 --nodegroup-name camunda-nodes --node-type t2.micro --nodes 2

Remove the cluster if needed

eksctl delete cluster --name camunda-cluster

Tip	See the cluster you provisioned in AWS EKS Console

Use aws cli add the context for the EKS kuberentes cluster to kubectl

aws eks --region us-west-2 update-kubeconfig --name camunda-cluster

See more about CLI install here and config quickstart here

Check the context

kubectl config current-context

cat /Users/paullungu/.kube/config