create-eks-cluster.md

Create an Amazon EKS cluster

Pre-requisites

This assumes that you already have an Amazon Web Services account and that you created an Amazon EKS service role in the AWS IAM console.

• Download and Install the Terraform by Hashicorp CLI
• Configure AWS Credentials

Create AWS EKS Cluster

Clone the cluster-baseline repository:

git clone [email protected]:CloudNativeGBB/cluster-baseline.git
cd cluster-baseline

Initialize Terraform:

terraform init

To see any changes in advance that are required for your infrastructure, use terraform plan.

Create the cluster using Terraform:

cd infrastructure/aws
terraform apply

Answer yes to approve the creation actions when prompted.

Rinse, repeat as needed, style as usual.