Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes - Lab Session

• Generate Access Keys for your IAM user

• Configure AWS CLI

• Download eksctl and create cluster

  Linux users

  curl --silent --location "https://github.com/weaveworks/eksctl/releases/download/latest_release/eksctl_$(uname -s)_amd64.tar.gz" | tar xz -C /tmp

  sudo mv /tmp/eksctl /usr/local/bin

  macOS users - Alternative method

  brew tap weaveworks/tap

  brew install weaveworks/tap/eksctl

  Windows users

  chocolatey install eksctl

• Run following command to create EKS Cluster and Worker Nodes

  eksctl create cluster --region=us-east-1 --ssh-access --ssh-public-key=teja-key-pair.pem --version=1.12 --name=eks-lab

• Verify that EKS Cluster is created and Worker Node Autoscaling group is created

  kubectl get svc

  kubectl get nodes

• You have a working cluster with nodes associated and dedicated workstation using which we can make deployments. From the directory you cloned, using tomcat.yaml file in it, run this command

  kubectl apply -f tomcat.yaml

• Go to ELB Console, get CNAME of ELB and test that app is working fine

• Clean up deployment/service using

  kubectl delete -f tomcat.yaml