Set up kubectl
Install kubectl¶
This guide assumes you have an EKS Cluster ready
Note the pricing of setting up EKS: Amazon EKS pricing
You can read about setting up EKS here: Set up EKS Cluster
You can follow this guide to setup EKS cluster with eksctl setup eks
First you need to configure your kubectl to work with eks.
In order to do that, follow the AWS documentation according to your OS.
At the time of writing this, current kubernetes version is 1.14 so use it for the kubectl installation as well.
You can verify the server & your client versions by running:
kubectl version
The output should be:
Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"14+", GitVersion:"v1.14.7-eks-1861c5", GitCommit:"1861c597586f84f1498a9f2151c78d8a6bf47814", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2019-09-24T22:12:08Z", GoVersion:"go1.12.9", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"darwin/amd64"}
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"14+", GitVersion:"v1.14.9-eks-c0eccc", GitCommit:"c0eccca51d7500bb03b2f163dd8d534ffeb2f7a2", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2019-12-22T23:14:11Z", GoVersion:"go1.12.12", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
Note the Major:"1", Minor:"14+" on both, they should match.
Install aws-iam-authenticator¶
This will allow you to Authenticate the EKS service.
Make sure you upgrade aws-cli to latest version before proceeding.
Create kubeconfig for Amazon EKS¶
In this Demo, our cluster name is lab-eks and the aws region is us-east-1
So adjust them according to your details in order to create the kubeconfig and run:
aws eks --region us-east-1 update-kubeconfig --name lab-eks
If everything worked correctly you should now be able to run the below command without errors:
kubectl get svc
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We will deploy an app to our Production EKS cluster.