Install eksctl on windows

The eksctl CLI is used to work with EKS clusters. It automates many individual tasks. See Installation in the eksctl documentation for instructions on installing eksctl.

Direct download (latest release): AMD64/x86_64 – ARMv6 – ARMv7 – ARM64¶

Make sure to unzip the archive to a folder and add the eksctl.exe location in the path variable

Check the version using the command

eksctl version

When using eksctl the IAM security principal that you’re using must have permissions to work with Amazon EKS IAM roles, service linked roles, AWS CloudFormation, a VPC, and related resources. For more information, see Actions and Using service-linked roles in the IAM User Guide. You must complete all steps in this guide as the same user. To check the current user, run the following command:

aws sts get-caller-identity