Kops

This describes creation of K8s cluster in AWS environment from scratch as done for microservices based eCommerce project. Pre-requisites # AWS account access - IAM with Admin privileges AWS CLI installed - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-install-macos.html CLI credentials (secret key + api Key) - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/iam/index.html Kubectl and Kops local install ** see https://github.com/kubernetes/kops and https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl/ Test of access # ➜ etc git:(feature/kubernetes) aws --version aws-cli/1.11.180 Python/3.6.4 Darwin/17.5.0 botocore/1.7.38 ➜ etc git:(feature/kubernetes) kubectl version Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"10", GitVersion:"v1.10.1", GitCommit:"d4ab47518836c750f9949b9e0d387f20fb92260b", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2018-04-13T22:27:55Z", GoVersion:"go1.9.5", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"darwin/amd64"} Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"9", GitVersion:"v1.9.3", GitCommit:"d2835416544f298c919e2ead3be3d0864b52323b", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2018-02-07T11:55:20Z", GoVersion:"go1.9.2", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"} ➜ etc git:(feature/kubernetes) kops version Version 1.9.0 ➜ etc git:(feature/kubernetes) aws --profile twfulfill-miro iam list-users | jq '.Users[].UserName' .. DELETED ... "twfulfillment.prod.miro.adamy" .... Set the environment variables # These will be used by subsequent kops / aws commands