DEPLOY EKS - TERRAFORM, EC2 👾

Tired of creating clusters manually just to try something out for a few minutes? Then run this.

Pre-requisites

Terraform installed
AWS credentials
AWS cli installed on a host to connect to the cluster
kubectl installed on a host to deploy to the cluster

Deployment Instructions - EKS

Install Terraform
Clone this repository
Run a terraform init to grab providers and modules
Run aws_configure and establish your credentials
Run a terraform_apply and wait 10 - 15 minutes
Run aws eks --region us-east-1 update-kubeconfig --name my-cluster to add the context to your kubeconfig
Profit

Deployment Instructions - EC2 Instances

Install Terraform
Clone this repository
Edit the variables in variables.tf to match any unique values you want to apply to your instances
Edit the public key in keypairs.tf to match the public key of a keypair you generated somewhere using ssh-keygen
Run a terraform init to grab providers and modules
Run aws_configure and establish your credentials
Run a terraform_apply and wait 10 - 15 minutes
Profit

Connecting

Run aws eks --region us-east-1 update-kubeconfig --name my-cluster to add the context to your kubeconfig

Troubleshooting

Pods stuck in Pending

Possibility of resources not efficient. The instances in the worker group could be too small to assign IP addresses to all the pods

Workers not joining the cluster

Ensure the workers are getting public IP addresses