EKS Setup in AWS

Step - 1 : Create EKS Management Host in AWS

1) Launch new Ubuntu VM using AWS Ec2 ( t2.micro )

2) Connect to machine and install kubectl using below commands

curl -o kubectl https://amazon-eks.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1.19.6/2021-01-05/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl
chmod +x ./kubectl
sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin
kubectl version --short --client

3) Install AWS CLI latest version using below commands

sudo apt install unzip
curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
unzip awscliv2.zip
sudo ./aws/install
aws --version

4) Install eksctl using below commands

curl --silent --location "https://github.com/weaveworks/eksctl/releases/latest/download/eksctl_$(uname -s)_amd64.tar.gz" | tar xz -C /tmp
sudo mv /tmp/eksctl /usr/local/bin
eksctl version

Step - 2 : Create IAM role & attach to EKS Management Host

1) Create New Role using IAM service ( Select Usecase - ec2 )

2) Add below permissions for the role

- Administrator - acces

3) Enter Role Name (eksrole)
4) Attach created role to EKS Management Host (Select EC2 => Click on Security => Modify IAM Role => attach IAM role we have created)

Step - 3 : Create EKS Cluster using eksctl #

Syntax:

eksctl create cluster --name cluster-name \
--region region-name \
--node-type instance-type \
--nodes-min 2 \
--nodes-max 2 \
--zones ,

N. Virgina:


eksctl create cluster --name psait-cluster4 --region us-east-1 --node-type t2.medium --zones us-east-1a,us-east-1b


Mumbai:


eksctl create cluster --name psait-cluster4 --region ap-south-1 --node-type t2.medium --zones ap-south-1a,ap-south-1b


After cluster created we can check nodes using below command.


kubectl get nodes


Note: We should be able to see EKS cluster nodes here.**

We are done with our Setup

Step - 4 : After your practise, delete Cluster and other resources we have used in AWS Cloud to avoid billing

eksctl delete cluster --name psait-cluster4 --region ap-south-1