Creating a Cluster

Now for the information about creating a cluster

eksctl create cluster --name oklen-project-eks --region us-east-1 --nodegroup-name oklen-test-node --node-type t3.micro --nodes 2 --nodes-min 1 --nodes-max 4 --managed

named the project as I did not want a default name, specified the region the cloud9 was set up in, specified a node group in case I wanted to add more, Nodetype is t3.micro to mimic the cloud9 instance. 2 Nodes, 1 minimum in case of failure and 4 maximum for load balancing and finally eks managed policy

This looks like it may take a while

Decided to check cloud formation as the prompt kept saying it is waiting for it.

Ignoring “my first service dev” from 4 years ago. I can see that the status is completed for the eks project cluster and the nodegroup stack.

Node group and cluster is ready

Checking EKS in the AWS service,

Want to open up the cluster and check that the nodes I requested are also there

but it seems that kubectl was not installed. So I have to install that as well. May not use it but just a good to have

Environment is ready and waiting

Now to start building the deployments

aws eks update-kubeconfig --name oklen-project-eks --region us-east-1