Launching your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service cluster
With all of the prerequisites installed, we can finally start deploying our Amazon EKS cluster. Once deployed, we will be able to start interacting with it to launch a workload like we did in Chapter 15, Kubernetes Clusters on Google Kubernetes Engine.
To do this, we will use the defaults built into the eksctl command, as this is just a sandbox Amazon EKS against which we can run some commands. This 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)
- Uses Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for its 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
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