samsonidowu / eksctl-deployment

This repo outlines a custom template that can be used to deploy the Amazon EKS service with some custom fields within a linux environment

eksctl-deployment

This repo outlines a custom template that can be used to deploy the Amazon EKS service with some custom fields within a linux environment

Requirements

• Make sure eksctl is installed on your machine:

# Download and extract the latest release of eksctl with the following command.
curl --silent --location "https://github.com/weaveworks/eksctl/releases/latest/download/eksctl_$(uname -s)_amd64.tar.gz" | tar xz -C /tmp
# Move the extracted binary to /usr/local/bin.
sudo mv /tmp/eksctl /usr/local/bin
# Test that your installation was successful with the following command. 
eksctl version

• Install kubectl using the official guide.
• Create an AWS access key on the AWS console and populate the .aws/credentials file with the aws_access_key_id and aws_secret_access_key using the following template:

[default]
aws_access_key_id = **************
aws_secret_access_key = ****************************************

Create eksCluster

Perform the following steps on your linux machine:

Option 1

• Clone this repository to your local machine:

git clone https://github.com/SamsonIdowu/eksctl-deployment.git

• Edit the config.yaml file and save the changes

nano ./eksctl-deployment/config.yaml

• Create an eksCluster using the eksctl create command as shown below:

eksctl create cluster -f ./eksctl-deployment/config.yaml

Option 2

• Edit the following commands and run on a linux shell:

eksctl create cluster \
--name=test-cluster \
--version=1.29 \
--region=us-east-1 \
--zones=us-east-1a,us-east-1b \
--nodegroup-name=eks-nodes \
--node-type=t2.micro \
--nodes=2 \
--nodes-min=2   \
--nodes-max=4 \
--vpc-cidr=<your-vpc-cidr> \
--alb-ingress-access \

Destroy eksCluster

Perform the following steps on your linux machine:

Option 1

• To remove your eksCluster and all related resources, run the following command:

eksctl delete cluster -f ./eksctl-deployment/config.yaml

Option 2

• To remove your eksCluster and all related resources, run the following command:

eksctl delete cluster --name <cluster-name> --region <region>

For more on using eksctl, follow this reference