Prerequisites

- a AWS account 
- a configured AWS CLI
- AWS IAM Authenticator
- terraform >= 0.14
- kubectl to interact with the elk 

config AWS CLI

aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]: YOUR_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: YOUR_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
Default region name [None]: YOUR_AWS_REGION
Default output format [None]: json

Set up and initialize your workspace

make init-terraform

Provision an EKS Cluster

make setup-eks-cluster

Get and Configure kubeconfig

aws eks --region $(terraform output -raw region) update-kubeconfig --name $(terraform output -raw cluster_name) 

Destroy an EKS Cluster

make destroy-eks-cluster

GitHub Actions Prerequisites

- terraform cloud account for the backend and the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY in the workspace env.

Additional components

Consul

kube-prometheus

grafana-operator

ArgoCD