Setup EKS Dev Environment

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This workshop is a walkthrough of deploying standard CLI and tools for using AWS EKS

Assumptions

• You already have an AWS account with typical permissions to create EC2 resources, EKS clusters, etc

Setup AWS CLI

1. General instructions - aws cli v2 docs

2. Download and Install AWS CLI v2.

   $ curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/AWSCLIV2.pkg" -o "AWSCLIV2.pkg"
   sudo installer -pkg AWSCLIV2.pkg -target /

3. Check for successful installation

   $ aws --version
   aws-cli/2.0.38 Python/3.7.4 Darwin/17.7.0 exe/x86_64

4. Configure your AWS credentials for your preferred region

   $ aws configure
   AWS Access Key ID [None]: AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
   AWS Secret Access Key [None]: wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY
   Default region name [None]: us-east-2
   Default output format [None]: json

Setup Amazon EKS CLI - eksctl

1. General instructions - eksctl docs

2. If using a Mac, we are assuming you have homebrew installed, otherwise please install it now

   $ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"

3. Next, install the Weavworks tap

   $ brew tap weaveworks/tap

4. Finally, install eksctl

   $ brew install weaveworks/tap/eksctl

5. Check for successful installation

   $ eksctl version
   0.25.0

Setup kubectl

1. General instructions - kubectl docs

2. Download and Install kubectl

   $ curl -LO "https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/darwin/amd64/kubectl"
   $ chmod +x ./kubectl
   $ sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

3. Check for successful installation

   $ kubectl version --client
       Client Version: version.Info {
       Major:"1",
       Minor:"18",
       GitVersion:"v1.18.4",
       GitCommit:"c96aede7b5205121079932896c4ad89bb93260af",
       GitTreeState:"clean",
       BuildDate:"2020-06-17T11:41:22Z",
       GoVersion:"go1.13.9",
       Compiler:"gc",
       Platform:"darwin/amd64"
       }