provision-eks

Based on the HashiCorp tutorial: https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/terraform/eks?in=terraform/kubernetes Products Used: Terraform, TF-controller

EKS or the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service is an AWS service for creating, and managing Kubernete clusters.

In this tutorial, you will deploy an EKS cluster using GitOps and Terraform. Then, you will configure kubectl to connect to the cluster using information obtained from an Terraform output.

⚠️ Warning! An EKS cluster pricing starts from $0.10 per hour. You may be charged a few dollars by running this tutorial, but we are not responsible for any charges that may incur.

Why deploy with GitOps and Terraform?

While you could use the built-in AWS tools to provision EKS clusters, GitOps and Terraform provide you several benefits.

• Unified GitOps Workflow:
• Full GitOps Management:

Prerequisites

This tutorial assumes that you are familar with Kubernetes and kubectl command. But It does not assume that you have an existing cluster deployment.

This tutorial also assumes that you are familiar with basic use of Terraform like plan and apply workflow. If you are new to Terraform, please refer to this tutorial.

This tutorial also assumes that you know basic knowledge of GitOps, but does not assume any previous GitOps hands-on experience.

For this tutorial you need:

• An AWS account with IAM permissions listed on the EKS module documentation.
• A configured AWS CLI
• AWS IAM Authenticaor
• kubectl
• wget
• flux