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Creating an EKS Cluster: Version 1.25 from Scratch.

Create an Amazon EKS cluster 1.25 version from scratch. When your cluster is ready, you can configure your favorite Kubernetes tools.

Ashish Gajjar
Published Mar 30, 2024
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Introduction :

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed service that you can use to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install, operate, and maintain your own Kubernetes control plane or nodes. Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

Step 1: Login AWS console

  • Open IAM Dashboard
  • **** Create a user. username : ashish
  • Attach AdministratorAccess policy.
  • Create access and secret key.

Step 2: Create a Ec2 machine

  1. Open a EC2 Dashboard.
  2. Launch instance
  3. Name and Tags : MyTest
  4. Application and OS Image ( AMI ) : Amazon Linux 2023 AMI
  5. Instance Type: t2.micro
  6. Keypair : ashish.pem
  7. Network Settings : VPC, subnet
    • Security Group : 22 - SSH (inbound)
  8. Storage : Min 8 GiB , GP3
  9. Click Launch instance

Step 3: Login EC2 instance and configure Access/Secret key.

Login to EC2 instance.
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ssh -i "sunday.pem" ec2-user@ec2-18-206-121-98.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Configure Access key and Secret key using AWS CLI.
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[root@ip-172-31-88-31 ~]# aws configure
AWS Access Key ID ]: ****************4E4R
AWS Secret Access Key]: [****************HRJx]:
Default region name]: [Region Name]:
Default output format]: [None]:

Step 4: Install eksctl and kubectl using AWS CLI.

Setup eksctl
  • Download and extract the latest release
  • Move the extracted binary to /usr/local/bin
  • Test that your eksclt installation was successful.
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# for ARM systems, set ARCH to: `arm64`, `armv6` or `armv7`
ARCH=amd64
PLATFORM=$(uname -s)_$ARCH

curl -sLO "https://github.com/eksctl-io/eksctl/releases/latest/download/eksctl_$PLATFORM.tar.gz"

# (Optional) Verify checksum
curl -sL "https://github.com/eksctl-io/eksctl/releases/latest/download/eksctl_checksums.txt" | grep $PLATFORM | sha256sum --check

tar -xzf eksctl_$PLATFORM.tar.gz -C /tmp && rm eksctl_$PLATFORM.tar.gz

sudo mv /tmp/eksctl /usr/local/bin
  • Download kubectl version
  • Grant execution permissions to kubectl executable
  • Move kubectl onto /usr/local/bin
  • Test that your kubectl installation was successful
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wget https://amazon-eks.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1.16.8/2020-04-16/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl
chmod +x ./kubectl
mkdir -p $HOME/bin && cp ./kubectl $HOME/bin/kubectl && export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
kubectl version --short --client

Step 5: Create a cluster using eksctl command.

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eksctl create cluster --name ashish --version 1.25 --region us-east-1 --nodegroup-name ashish-workers --node-type t3.medium --nodes 2 --nodes-min 1 --nodes-max 3 --managed
  • eksctl create cluster : Creating a cluster​​ eksctl
  • --name ashish :**** Name of Cluster
  • --version 1.25 : EKS cluster version
  • --region us-east-1 : AWS Region Name
  • --nodegroup-name ashish-workers : Autoscaling Group Name
  • --node-type t3.medium : instance type
  • --nodes 2 : Desire Node capacity is 2.
  • --nodes-min 1 : Minimum Node capacity is 1.
  • --nodes-max 4 --managed : Maximum capacity is 4.
After executing eksctl command output is as below:
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[root@ip-172-31-88-31 ~]# eksctl create cluster --name ashish --version 1.25 --region us-east-1 --nodegroup-name ashish-workers --node-type t3.medium --nodes 2 --nodes-min 1 --nodes-max 3 --managed
2024-03-30 03:10:16 [ℹ] eksctl version 0.175.0
2024-03-30 03:10:16 [ℹ] using region us-east-1
2024-03-30 03:10:16 [ℹ] skipping us-east-1e from selection because it doesn't support the following instance type(s): t3.medium
2024-03-30 03:10:16 [ℹ] setting availability zones to [us-east-1f us-east-1d]
2024-03-30 03:10:16 [ℹ] subnets for us-east-1f - public:192.168.0.0/19 private:192.168.64.0/19
2024-03-30 03:10:16 [ℹ] subnets for us-east-1d - public:192.168.32.0/19 private:192.168.96.0/19
2024-03-30 03:10:16 [ℹ] nodegroup "ashish-workers" will use "" [AmazonLinux2/1.25]
2024-03-30 03:10:16 [ℹ] using Kubernetes version 1.25
2024-03-30 03:10:16 [ℹ] creating EKS cluster "ashish" in "us-east-1" region with managed nodes
2024-03-30 03:10:16 [ℹ] will create 2 separate CloudFormation stacks for cluster itself and the initial managed nodegroup
2024-03-30 03:10:16 [ℹ] if you encounter any issues, check CloudFormation console or try 'eksctl utils describe-stacks --region=us-east-1 --cluster=ashish'
2024-03-30 03:10:16 [ℹ] Kubernetes API endpoint access will use default of {publicAccess=true, privateAccess=false} for cluster "ashish" in "us-east-1"
2024-03-30 03:10:16 [ℹ] CloudWatch logging will not be enabled for cluster "ashish" in "us-east-1"
2024-03-30 03:10:16 [ℹ] you can enable it with 'eksctl utils update-cluster-logging --enable-types={SPECIFY-YOUR-LOG-TYPES-HERE (e.g. all)} --region=us-east-1 --cluster=ashish'
2024-03-30 03:10:16 [ℹ]
2 sequential tasks: { create cluster control plane "ashish",
2 sequential sub-tasks: {
wait for control plane to become ready,
create managed nodegroup "ashish-workers",
}
}
2024-03-30 03:10:16 [ℹ] building cluster stack "eksctl-ashish-cluster"
2024-03-30 03:10:16 [ℹ] deploying stack "eksctl-ashish-cluster"
2024-03-30 03:10:46 [ℹ] waiting for CloudFormation stack "eksctl-ashish-cluster"
2024-03-30 03:11:16 [ℹ] waiting for CloudFormation stack "eksctl-ashish-cluster"
2024-03-30 03:12:16 [ℹ] waiting for CloudFormation stack "eksctl-ashish-cluster"
2024-03-30 03:25:31 [ℹ] waiting for CloudFormation stack "eksctl-ashish-nodegroup-ashish-workers"
2024-03-30 03:25:31 [ℹ] waiting for the control plane to become ready
2024-03-30 03:25:31 [✔] saved kubeconfig as "/root/.kube/config"
2024-03-30 03:25:31 [ℹ] no tasks
2024-03-30 03:25:31 [✔] all EKS cluster resources for "ashish" have been created
2024-03-30 03:25:32 [ℹ] nodegroup "ashish-workers" has 2 node(s)
2024-03-30 03:25:32 [ℹ] node "ip-192-168-2-24.ec2.internal" is ready
2024-03-30 03:25:32 [ℹ] node "ip-192-168-47-180.ec2.internal" is ready
2024-03-30 03:25:32 [ℹ] waiting for at least 1 node(s) to become ready in "ashish-workers"
2024-03-30 03:25:32 [ℹ] nodegroup "ashish-workers" has 2 node(s)
2024-03-30 03:25:32 [ℹ] node "ip-192-168-2-24.ec2.internal" is ready
2024-03-30 03:25:32 [ℹ] node "ip-192-168-47-180.ec2.internal" is ready
2024-03-30 03:25:32 [ℹ] kubectl command should work with "/root/.kube/config", try 'kubectl get nodes'
2024-03-30 03:25:32 [✔] EKS cluster "ashish" in "us-east-1" region is ready
EKS cluster successfully launch verification steps:
  1. AWS CLI
    • Check how many pods are running
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[root@ip-172-31-88-31 ~]# kubectl get po -A
NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
kube-system aws-node-8qc9n 2/2 Running 0 7m38s
kube-system aws-node-f7rkv 2/2 Running 0 7m34s
kube-system coredns-5b676c58cf-67rnt 1/1 Running 0 13m
kube-system coredns-5b676c58cf-sr5l5 1/1 Running 0 13m
kube-system kube-proxy-mbnwt 1/1 Running 0 7m34s
kube-system kube-proxy-rb7vn 1/1 Running 0 7m38s
  1. AWS Console
  • Verify EKS Cluster and version.
  • Verify ASG Group
Step 6: Delete the EKS Cluster
When you’re done using an Amazon EKS cluster, you should delete the resources associated with it so that you don’t incur any unnecessary costs.
Delete the cluster and its associated nodes with the following command,
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[root@ip-172-31-88-31 ~]# eksctl delete cluster --name ashish
Conclusion :
In this blogs, we learned how to setup a Kubernetes cluster on EC2 machine using AWS CLI.
 
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