Create your first EKS Cluster using AWS Management Console

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

See also:

• eksctl create cluster
• Deploy EKS cluster using Terraform

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