Editing AWS EKS

[[AWS]] Elastic [[Kubernetes]] Service (EKS) is a managed [[Kubernetes]] solution for running [[containers]] available in AWS cloud platform since June 2018 <ref>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-eks-now-generally-available/</ref>. EKS can be managed using [[Jenkins X]] software <ref>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/continuous-delivery-eks-jenkins-x/</ref>. Other AWS services for running containers are [[ECS]] or [[Fargate]].

By default EKS provides 3 master nodes and 3 [[etcd]] nodes, but are invisible to you and Amazon is responsible of AutoScaling them when needed.


== Creation your first EKS Cluster <ref>https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started.html</ref> ==
:0) Prerequisites: <code>[[kubectl]]</code> and <code>aws-iam-authenticator</code> (a tool to authenticate to Kubernetes using AWS IAM credentials)<ref>https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started.html</ref>
:: On MacOs: <code>brew install aws-iam-authenticator</code> and <code>brew install kubernetes-cli</code> 
:1) Create a new service role
:2) Create a new VPC for you new EKS Cluster using this [[CloudFormation]] template from AWS: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started.html
:3) Create EKS Cluster from AWS Webconsole, user used for creating EKS Cluster will be the initial administrator.
:4) Create Worker Nodes using AWS Cloudformation template https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-eks-ami/blob/master/amazon-eks-nodegroup.yaml
:5) Install Kubernetes dashboard<ref>https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/web-ui-dashboard/</ref>

== Costs ==
EKS is more expensive than [[ECS]] for small clusters.

== See also ==
* AWS [[ECS]] container services
* [[CNI]] - [[Container]] Network Interface
* AWS EKS getting starting guide: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started.html
* [[Google Kubernetes Engine]]

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