README.md

AWS EKS (Kubernetes) Example

The work here assumes you have an AWS account and have the AWS CLI installed and configured to this account.

Files

• The variables.tf contains the different variables configurable in this example.
• The providers.tf contains the terraform providers needed for this example.
• The main.tf contains the configuration that Terraform will use to create all the resources needed for running an EKS cluster.

Set and store the needed variables values in a terraform.tfvars file

region = "eu-central-1"
cluster_name = "demo-eks-cluster-test"
cluster_public_access_cidrs = "1.2.3.4/0"

1. Initialize the Terraform configuration by running the following command

terraform init

2. Plan the Terraform configuration by running the following command

terraform plan

3. Apply the Terraform configuration by running the following command

terraform apply

To get the kubectl configuration for the EKS cluster, run the following command

aws eks --region $(terraform output -raw region) update-kubeconfig --name $(terraform output -raw cluster_name)

Check the connection to the EKS cluster by running the following command

kubectl get nodes

4. When you are done, you can destroy the resources by running the following command

terraform destroy