DEPLOY EKS - TERRAFORM, EC2 👾

Tired of creating clusters manually just to try something out for a few minutes? Then run this.

Pre-requisites

• Terraform installed
• AWS credentials
• AWS cli installed on a host to connect to the cluster
• kubectl installed on a host to deploy to the cluster

Deployment Instructions - EKS

• Install Terraform
• Clone this repository
• Run a terraform init to grab providers and modules
• Run aws_configure and establish your credentials
• Run a terraform_apply and wait 10 - 15 minutes
• Run aws eks --region us-east-1 update-kubeconfig --name my-cluster to add the context to your kubeconfig
• Profit

Deployment Instructions - EC2 Instances

• Install Terraform
• Clone this repository
• Edit the variables in variables.tf to match any unique values you want to apply to your instances
• Edit the public key in keypairs.tf to match the public key of a keypair you generated somewhere using ssh-keygen
• Run a terraform init to grab providers and modules
• Run aws_configure and establish your credentials
• Run a terraform_apply and wait 10 - 15 minutes
• Profit

Connecting

• Run aws eks --region us-east-1 update-kubeconfig --name my-cluster to add the context to your kubeconfig

Troubleshooting

Pods stuck in Pending

• Possibility of resources not efficient. The instances in the worker group could be too small to assign IP addresses to all the pods

Workers not joining the cluster

• Ensure the workers are getting public IP addresses