Deploying a Kubernetes Cluster Using Elastic Kubernetes Service

As a cloud engineer for a tech startup, you’ve been tasked with setting up a new Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) cluster to host an application. This is critical for the company’s operations, so it's important that the application you deploy runs correctly.

• Create an EKS cluster in the us-east-1 Region.
• Deploy a test application to mimic the application.
• Configure autoscaling to a max of four nodes.
• Test the cluster to see if what you created works!

Here is the link to the repo:

https://github.com/ACloudGuru-Resources/Course_EKS-Basics

Here are commands you will use.

Download AWS CLI2:

curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"

Download kubectl:

curl -O https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/amazon-eks/1.25.6/2023-01-30/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl

Create the directory:

mkdir -p $HOME/bin && cp ./kubectl $HOME/bin/kubectl && export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

Download EKSCTL:

curl --silent --location "https://github.com/weaveworks/eksctl/releases/latest/download/eksctl_$(uname -s)_amd64.tar.gz" | tar xz -C /tmp

Create the cluster:

eksctl create cluster --name myeks --region us-east-1 --zones=us-east-1a,us-east-1b --nodegroup-name eks-workers --node-type t3.medium --nodes 2 --nodes-min 2 --nodes-max 4 --managed