I used Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS.
https://logz.io/blog/aws-eks-vs-ecs-vs-fargate-understand-differences/
Amazon also offers Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Fargate.
Since Amazon EKS is based on the open-source tool Kubernetes, all applications managed by Amazon EKS are fully compatible with applications managed by any standard Kubernetes environment.
I logged in to aws.amazon.com
I navigated to the AWS Management Console
Docker desktop
To demonstrate that I could use the same kubectl client to deploy containers to a laptop or the AWS cloud, I used this Docker Desktop example.
No containers were running
I ran kubectl apply -f ./blog.yaml
The cluster was running
I accessed the Docker Desktop cluster
aws cli
I used the aws command line tool to manage the Amazon Web Services cloud.
I created a new AWS access key
The access key was created
aws configure
I used aws configure to set credentials.
BASH
1% aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]: AKIAYLZDACM7MNDENQV4
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: iBXYnPPUTp+enyaVU2xvXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Default region name [None]:
Default output format [None]:
eksctl
I used eksctl, a simple CLI tool for creating clusters on EKS — Amazon's managed Kubernetes service for EC2.
https://github.com/weaveworks/eksctl
I reviewed the eksctl documentation on the AWS site
I found the eksctl project on GitHub
I installed eksctl
No clusters were running
eksctl create cluster
BASH
1% eksctl create cluster \ 2 --name blog-cluster \ 3 --node-type t2.nano \ 4 --nodes 2
I used eksctl to create a cluster (node type t2.nano)
The blog-cluster was being created
The blog-cluster was active
The blog-cluster EC2 nodes were created
The eksctl command finished
kubectl apply
I used kubectl apply to deploy containers
eksctl delete cluster
I used eksctl delete to remove the cluster.
BASH
1% eksctl delete cluster \ 2 --name blog-cluster
I ran eksctl delete cluster
The cluster was deleted
Deleting an AWS Access Key
Publishing AWS access keys is not a great idea, so I deleted mine.
I selected the Delete link
I clicked the Deactivate button
I confirmed the access key name and clicked Delete
The access key was deleted