I used AWS Fargate, a serverless pay-as-you-go compute engine, to run containers on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
I used Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS.
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