We will use AWS as our cloud vendor for the examples. We need to install some utilities to interact from the command line. Check how to install the AWS CLI utility in this documentation (https://aws.amazon.com/cli/). This utility allows performing AWS tasks from the command line.
To operate the Kubernetes cluster, we will use eksctl. Check this documentation (https://eksctl.io/introduction/installation/) for installation instructions.
You'll need also to install aws-iam-authenticator. You can check the installation instructions here (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/install-aws-iam-authenticator.html).
The code for this chapter can be found on GitHub at this link: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Docker-for-Microservices-with-Python/tree/master/Chapter07.
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