shpweb / basic-eks-setup

Setup EKS cluster without using any pre-built terraform modules from registry

basic-eks-setup

Creating a basic EKS (managed kubernetes cluster) setup on AWS without using any pre-built terraform modules for EKS.

• This cluster is setup on top of a default-vpc (not a secure mechanism, but this is just an overview of EKS setup without touching the network layer)
• There is no terraform remote backend created for this. So terraform state is locally managed as per this repo.

Steps to setup:

• Use your own aws profile name in the provider
• Run terraform init
• Run terraform plan -out out.terraform
• Run terraform apply out.terraform

Access the EKS cluster

It might take about 20-25 mins for the cluster creation, once the cluster setup is done, perform the following commands

1. Generate Kubeconfig

   aws eks update-kubeconfig --name <cluster-name>
   
   

2. Verify the current cluster context

   kubectl config current-context
   
   

3. Access the cluster resources

   kubectl get pods -n <namepsace>