Create EKS Cluster using eksctl

• It will take 15 to 20 minutes to create the Cluster Control Plane

# Create Cluster using eksctl
eksctl create cluster --name=eksdemo1 \
                      --region=us-east-1 \
                      --zones=us-east-1a,us-east-1b \
                      --without-nodegroup

#Get list of clusters

eksctl get cluster –region us-east-1

Create & Associate IAM OIDC Provider for our EKS Cluster

# Replace with region & cluster name
eksctl utils associate-iam-oidc-provider \
    --region us-east-1 \
    --cluster eksdemo1 \
    --approve

Create EC2 Keypair

• Create a new EC2 Keypair with name as kube-demo
• This keypair we will use it when creating the EKS NodeGroup.
• This will help us to login to the EKS Worker Nodes using Terminal.

Create Node Group with additional Add-Ons in Public Subnets

These add-ons will create the respective IAM policies for us automatically within our Node Group role.

# Create Public Node Group   
eksctl create nodegroup --cluster=eksdemo1 \
                       --region=us-east-1 \
                       --name=eksdemo1-ng-public1 \
                       --node-type=t3.medium \
                       --nodes=2 \
                       --nodes-min=2 \
                       --nodes-max=4 \
                       --node-volume-size=20 \
                       --ssh-access \
                       --ssh-public-key=kube-demo \
                       --managed \
                       --asg-access \
                       --external-dns-access \
                       --full-ecr-access \
                       --appmesh-access \
                       --alb-ingress-access 

Verify nodes

kubectl get nodes

kubectl get nodes -o wide

kubectl config view –minify

eksctl get nodegroup –cluster=eksdemo1 –region=us-east-1

ssh -i kube-demo.pem ec2-user@54.88.106.224

df -h

eksctl delete cluster eksdemo1 –region=us-east-1