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EKS Workshop

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This guide facilates AWS_Workshop . Please skip sections “Introduction”, “Start the workshop”, and “Launch using eksctl”.

Notable differences include:

  • end-to-end setup of EKS cluster and workshop
  • replacing cloud9 machine with an Ec2 instance

Prerequisites

Completed getting started guide for creating IAM and VPC .

The Dashboard should look like this below:

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Generate SSH keys

  • Generate ssh keys for Ec2 instance.
  • Convert ssh public key to base64 hash.
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -f eks-workshop -q
cat eks-workshop.pub | base64 -w 0 && echo ""

Upload Public key

Upload base64 hash into ElasticDev as input variables.1

  • Login into ElasticDev
  • Click DASHBOARD
  • Go to <username> pull down window
  • Click SETTINGS

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  • Click Add Input Variable
  • Enter name >> “eks-workshop-public-key”
  • Enter key >> “public_key”
  • Enter label >> <output from base64 above>

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  • Click Save

The input vars should look like this below:

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Add Project

  • Go to Home -> click Add Project
  • Select and Click launch-ed as the launch repository
  • Type branch name >> eks-workshop
  • Add project name >> eks-workshop-101
  • Click Add Project

Login to Ec2

  • Click DASHBOARD
  • Click eks-workshop-101

Should see something similar to below:

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  • Click on ec2_admin
  • Click Output tab

Should see something similar to below:

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  • Copy public_ip for the machine
  • Type in a terminal

e.g. public_ip => 18.202.229.214

ssh -i eks-workshop ubuntu@18.202.229.214
  • Run a “screen session” and sudo to root
screen
sudo su -
  • Execute commands to verify things.
echo "AWS"
aws --version
echo ""

echo "KubeCtl"
kubectl version
echo ""

echo "EKSCtl"
eksctl version
echo ""

echo "Helm"
helm version --short
echo ""

echo "Verify cluster is connected"
kubectl cluster-info
echo ""

  1. Similar to credentials, input variables are encrypted, but both “keys” and values are user specified. ↩