Summary
In this chapter, we examined the prerequisites needed before the configuration and deployment of a basic Amazon EKS cluster, such as setting up a deployment user . We reviewed the different EKS configuration and automation options that need configuring in EKS and what frameworks and tools are available to you.
We then stepped through five options, from using the AWS console and CLI to different IaC frameworks to create a basic EKS cluster.
After completing this lesson, you learned how to provision your EKS cluster and have a running cluster under your AWS account, as well as have kubectl and the AWS CLI installed to enable interaction with your EKS cluster.
In the next chapter, we are going to move on to the topic of learning how to deploy and run your containerized application on Amazon EKS.