Learn Terraform - Provision an EKS Cluster

This repo is a companion repo to the Provision an EKS Cluster learn guide, containing Terraform configuration files to provision an EKS cluster on AWS.# Terraform-And-Kubernetes

1. Install terrafrom CLI

2. Download demo-terraform-eks-cluster.zip file (files already on my repo) cd to the directory

3. Run Terrafrom init

4. Run Terraform apply

5. Configure kubectl

aws eks --region $(terraform output -raw region) update-kubeconfig --name $(terraform output -raw cluster_name)

6. Download the kubernetes metric server tar file

wget -O v0.3.6.tar.gz https://codeload.github.com/kubernetes-sigs/metrics-server/tar.gz/v0.3.6 && tar -xzf v0.3.6.tar.gz

7. Unzip the file and apply using kubectl

unzip metric-server 0.3.6

kubectl apply -f metrics-server-0.3.6/deploy/1.8+

==> verify metric server has been deployed

kubectl get deployment metrics-server -n kube-system

8. Deploy the kubernetes Dashboard ==> Apply the rbac roles necessary for the dashboard

kubectl apply -f kubernetes-dashboard-admin.rbac.yaml

==> Schedule the resources necessary for the dashboard

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/dashboard/v2.0.0-beta8/aio/deploy/recommended.yaml

==> Verifying the Dashboard resources

kubectl get pods -n kubernetes-dashboard -o wide kubectl get deployment -n kubernetes-dashboard -o wide kubectl get svc -n kubernetes-dashboard -o wide

==> Get the url kubectl proxy

9. Authenticate the dashbord

kubectl -n kube-system describe secret $(kubectl -n kube-system get secret | grep service-controller-token | awk '{print $1}')