From the course: Running Kubernetes on AWS (EKS)
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Create an EKS cluster with eksctl
From the course: Running Kubernetes on AWS (EKS)
Create an EKS cluster with eksctl
- [Instructor] In the last video, you set up your AWS command line tool on your computer so that you can make requests to the AWS API without clicking buttons in the AWS console. In this video, you'll use a yaml manifest, and EKS control to create an EKS cluster. You may have heard the term infrastructure as code, which is the technique where you create your infrastructure. EC2 instances, VPCs and Kubernetes clusters using code that can be saved and updated using git. This allows other people to see how you configured your infrastructure, and it's a requirement for setting up a GitOps workflow. It's different than creating these things with commands or button clicks in a console. In Kubernetes, the most commonly used format for infrastructure as code files are yaml manifests, and we will use a file called cluster.yaml to configure our EKS cluster. This is the cluster.yaml file, it's a yaml manifest. Let's take a look at this…
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