Launching a Kubernetes Cluster on Amazon Web Services with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
Let’s build on what we learned in the previous chapter. We launched a Kubernetes cluster in a public cloud, taking our first steps to run Kubernetes on one of the “big three” public cloud providers.
Now that we know what the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Kubernetes offering looks like, we will move on to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
In this chapter, you will learn how to set up an AWS account and install the supporting toolsets on macOS, Windows, and Linux, before finally launching and interacting with an Amazon EKS cluster.
We will be covering the following topics in this chapter:
- What are Amazon Web Services and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service?
- Preparing your local environment
- Launching your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service cluster
- Deploying a workload and interacting with your cluster...