elsctl
is a popular command-line tool to create and manage Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) on AWS. To install elsctl run following commands:
# Download the latest version of eksctl commandline tool$ curl --silent --location "https://github.com/weaveworks/eksctl/releases/latest/download/eksctl_$(uname -s)_amd64.tar.gz" | tar xz -C /tmp​# Move eksctl to your default command path$ sudo mv /tmp/eksctl /usr/local/bin
You can addeksctl
to the bash completion by running:
$ cat '. <(eksctl completion bash)' >> ~/.bashrc
Configure your aws credentials files ~/.aws/credentials
. It should define the aws_access_key_id
and aws_secret_access_key
:
[default]aws_access_key_id=A*****saws_secret_access_key=tm******f
You can also configure the default output and region in file ~/.aws/config
[default]region=us-east-2output=yaml
More details on aws command-line tool configuration can be found HERE.
# Create a new Kubernetes cluster using eksctl command$ eksctl create cluster --name jovianx-<COMPANY>-us-east-2 \--region us-east-2 \--version 1.15 \--managed \--nodegroup-name jovianx-system \--node-type t3.large \--nodes 2 \--nodes-min 2 \--nodes-max 20 \--asg-access \--external-dns-access \--full-ecr-access \--alb-ingress-access \--auto-kubeconfig
​