How to create EKS cluster using eksctl

Install Cli Tools

• aws cli
• eksctl
• kubectl

Create EKS cluster with EC2 instances as nodes

Configure aws credentials

Craete a eks-cluster.yaml file with the following content

apiVersion: eksctl.io/v1alpha5
kind: ClusterConfig

metadata:
  name: my-cluster
  region: us-west-2

nodeGroups:
  - name: nodegroup-1
    instanceType: t2.small
    desiredCapacity: 2

Run the following command to create cluster,

eksctl create cluster -f eks-cluster.yaml

Note:

• By default, it will craete one new vpc with 2 subnets

Create EKS cluster with EC2 instances as nodes with ssh access to worker nodes

Create key-pair in aws eg: my-key

Craete a eks-cluster.yaml file with the following content

apiVersion: eksctl.io/v1alpha5
kind: ClusterConfig

metadata:
  name: my-cluster
  region: us-west-2

nodeGroups:
  - name: nodegroup-1
    instanceType: t2.small
    desiredCapacity: 2
    ssh: # use existing EC2 key
      publicKeyName: eks-course

Run the following command to create cluster,

eksctl create cluster -f eks-cluster.yaml

Create EKS cluster with Fargate

eksctl create cluster --name my-cluster --region us-west-2 --fargate

To configure credentials to connect to eks using kubectl

aws eks update-kubeconfig --name my-cluster