Prepare MacOS for interacting with AWS EKS

Amazon EKS clusters require kubectl and the aws-iam-authenticator binary to allow IAM authentication for your Kubernetes cluster.

If you do not already have Homebrew installed on your Mac, install it with the following command.

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

INSTALL TOOLS

• kubectl

brew install kubectl

• aws-iam-authenticator

brew install aws-iam-authenticator

• jq

brew install jq

• envsubst

brew install gettext
brew link --force gettext

Verify

for command in kubectl aws-iam-authenticator jq envsubst
  do
    which $command &>/dev/null && echo "$command in path" || echo "$command NOT FOUND"
  done

eksctl - a CLI for Amazon EKS

Instead of using AWS console to create EKS cluster, you can use a more simpler but powerful tool.

eksctl is a simple CLI tool for creating clusters on EKS - Amazon’s new managed Kubernetes service for EC2. It is written in Go, and uses CloudFormation.

brew install eksctl

Now you are ready to use eksctl learn more here https://eksctl.io/

Bouns - Lens

I would recommended Lens - https://k8slens.dev/desktop.html - to manage and troubleshoot your K8s clusters, super easy to use, rich feature and free.