Creating Kubernetes Cluster in AWS from scratch with kops

Mon, 07 May 2018 11:22:48 +0800

This describes creation of K8s cluster in AWS environment from scratch as done for microservices based eCommerce project.

Pre-requisites
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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
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➜  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'
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"twfulfillment.prod.miro.adamy"
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Set the environment variables
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These will be used by subsequent kops / aws commands

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Creating Kubernetes Cluster in AWS from scratch with kops

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Test of access
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Set the environment variables
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