Bootstrapping in practice
In this section, the end goal is to create a fresh EKS cluster and validate all the actions we made in the previous sections. The validation criteria are the following:
- The EKS cluster created
- Two worker node groups, one for utilities and one for applications
- Accessing the UI of Argo CD (meaning the Istio operator and master-utilities are deployed already as they were part of previous sync-waves)
- Checking whether the Argo CD application to manage itself is there
Now, it’s time to destroy the infrastructure and recreate the infrastructure so that we can cross-validate what we have done so far is working, as described in the previous sections.
Destroying infrastructure
We have bootstrapped the EKS cluster with the necessary utilities in this chapter, and now it’s time to destroy the infrastructure completely and start afresh. Terraform gives us the ability to destroy infra with the following command to completely...
