This tutorial will guide you through setting up and deploying a Kubernetes cluster on Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service). EKS is a managed service by Amazon that makes it easy to run Kubernetes on AWS.

Prerequisites

  • AWS account with access to EKS
  • AWS CLI installed and configured
  • Docker installed on your local machine
  • kubectl installed and configured

Step 1: Create an EKS Cluster

  1. Open the AWS Management Console.
  2. Navigate to the "EKS" service.
  3. Click on "Create cluster".
  4. Follow the prompts to create your cluster.

Create EKS Cluster

Step 2: Install kubectl

  1. Download the latest version of kubectl for your operating system from the official Kubernetes website.
  2. Install kubectl following the instructions provided.

Step 3: Connect to Your Cluster

  1. Open a terminal or command prompt.
  2. Run the following command to connect to your cluster:
aws eks --region <region> update-kubeconfig --name <cluster-name>

Replace <region> with your AWS region and <cluster-name> with the name of your EKS cluster.

Step 4: Deploy an Application

  1. Create a new directory for your application.
  2. Inside the directory, create a Dockerfile with the following content:
FROM nginx
COPY index.html /usr/share/nginx/html/
  1. Create an index.html file with the following content:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Hello, Kubernetes!</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Hello, Kubernetes!</h1>
</body>
</html>
  1. Build your Docker image:
docker build -t hello-kubernetes .
  1. Deploy your application to your EKS cluster:
kubectl apply -f deployment.yaml

Where deployment.yaml is a Kubernetes deployment file that defines your application.

Deploy Application

Step 5: Access Your Application

  1. Once your application is deployed, you can access it by navigating to the following URL:
https://<cluster-name>.eks.<region>.amazonaws.com

Replace <cluster-name> with the name of your EKS cluster and <region> with your AWS region.

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