Provision EKS using Terraform

This repository contains Terraform code to create an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) cluster. The code automates the deployment and management of Kubernetes applications on the AWS cloud using Terraform.

Setup

AWS Credentials

Setup credentials as environment variables

$ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="aws-access-key"
$ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="aws-secret-key"

Install Terraform

$ brew tap hashicorp/tap
$ brew install hashicorp/tap/terraform

Installation guide

Provision

Clone the repository

Download the TF configuration files

$ git clone https://github.com/vravind1/terraform-eks.git

Terraform Init

Initialize Terraform to get necessary providers and modules.

mkdir terraform-eks
$ terraform init

Terraform Plan

Create execution plan.

$ terraform plan

Terraform apply

Execute the actions proposed in a Terraform plan.

$ terraform apply

Access the EKS Cluser

Install kubectl

Installation guide

$ brew install kubectl

Install aws-cli

Installation guide

Update the kube config for your cluster

Run this command to update the kube config with your cluster details

$ aws eks --region us-east-2 update-kubeconfig --name <eks-cluser-name>

List the nodes

Run this command to get the current status of all nodes in the cluster

$ kubectl get nodes
NAME                                       STATUS   ROLES    AGE     VERSION
ip-10-0-1-182.us-east-2.compute.internal   Ready    <none>   3h25m   v1.24.15-eks-a5565ad
ip-10-0-1-99.us-east-2.compute.internal    Ready    <none>   3h25m   v1.24.15-eks-a5565ad
ip-10-0-2-49.us-east-2.compute.internal    Ready    <none>   3h25m   v1.24.15-eks-a5565ad