Launching your Amazon EKS cluster

For our test, we are going to use the defaults built into the eksctl command. These will launch an Amazon EKS cluster with the following attributes:

• In the us-west-1 region.
• With two worker nodes, using the m5.large instance type.
• Uses the official AWS EKS Amazon Machine Image (AMI).
• In its own virtual private cloud (VPC), which is Amazon's networking service.
• With an automatically generated random name.

So, without further ado, let's launch our cluster by running the following command:

$ eksctl create cluster

You might want to go and make a drink or catch up on emails, as this process can take around 30 minutes to complete.

If you are not following along, here is the output I got when running the command. First of all, some basic information is displayed about the version of eksctl and which region will be used:

[i]  eksctl version 0.33.0
[i]  using region us-east-1

Now, by...