AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a managed Kubernetes solution for running containers available in AWS cloud platform since June 2018 . EKS can be managed using Jenkins X software . 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

0) Prerequisites: kubectl and aws-iam-authenticator (a tool to authenticate to Kubernetes using AWS IAM credentials)

On MacOs: brew install aws-iam-authenticator and brew install kubernetes-cli

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

Costs

EKS is more expensive than ECS for small clusters.

See also

• AWS, Amazon Managed Services, AWS Management & Governance, computing, security, networking, AWS compliance, AWS Outposts AWS Free Tier, AWS certifications, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Systems Manager, AWS Config, IAM Access Analyzer, AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Cost Management, AWS Budgets, AWS Organizations, AWS dev: (CodeStar, Cloud9), AWS Partner Network (APN), AWS Resource Access Manager, AWS Quick Starts, AWS Global Accelerator, AWS Elemental MediaStore, AWS Enterprise support, AWS support, AWS Professional Services Consultants, AWS Cloud Map, AWS Marketplace, AWS CLI, AWS Management Console, AWS acceptable use policy, amazonaws.com, Quotas, AWS Support plans, AWS Resource Explorer, AWS Managed Services (AMS), AWS savings, AWS Nitro System, AWS Activate, Serverless, AWS timeline
• CNI - Container Network Interface
• AWS EKS getting starting guide: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started.html
• DevOps/Kubernetes/Google Kubernetes Engine

https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/DevOps/Kubernetes/EKS

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/continuous-delivery-eks-jenkins-x/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started.html

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/web-ui-dashboard/