techworldwithsiva / terraform-aws-eksctl

Steps

SSH-Keys

• First prepare your SSH key pair.
• Import public key AWS key pairs.

WorkStation

• Create a security group that has all firewalls opened in Default VPC.
• Launch EC2 instance with AWS Linux 2 OS in Default VPC and allow-all SG.
• Install below packages in workstation.
  • Docker. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/techworldwithsiva/docker-install-commands/master/docker-install.sh
  • Git
  • AWS CLI V2. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html
  • Eksctl. https://github.com/eksctl-io/eksctl/blob/main/README.md#installation
  • kubectl. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/install-kubectl.html
• Once you ready the workstation, make sure you run aws configure.
• Fianlly create cluster

eksctl create cluster --config-file=eks.yaml

in AWS if one service wants to create or access other service. For example

• EKS cluster has to create Load Balancer. Then EKS cluster should have IAM Role that has a permission to create load balancer.
• Security Groups, when traffic is coming to EC2 instances, you should always check that port is allowed or not.