eksctl - The official CLI for Amazon EKS¶

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eksctl is a simple CLI tool for creating clusters on EKS - Amazon's new managed Kubernetes service for EC2. It is written in Go, uses CloudFormation, was created by Weaveworks and it welcomes contributions from the community. Create a basic cluster in minutes with just one command:

eksctl create cluster

A cluster will be created with default parameters:

exciting auto-generated name, e.g., fabulous-mushroom-1527688624

two m5.large worker nodes—this instance type suits most common use-cases, and is good value for money

worker nodes—this instance type suits most common use-cases, and is good value for money use the official AWS EKS AMI

us-west-2 region

region a dedicated VPC (check your quotas)

using static AMI resolver

Example output:

$ eksctl create cluster [ℹ] using region us-west-2 [ℹ] setting availability zones to [us-west-2a us-west-2c us-west-2b] [ℹ] subnets for us-west-2a - public:192.168.0.0/19 private:192.168.96.0/19 [ℹ] subnets for us-west-2c - public:192.168.32.0/19 private:192.168.128.0/19 [ℹ] subnets for us-west-2b - public:192.168.64.0/19 private:192.168.160.0/19 [ℹ] nodegroup "ng-98b3b83a" will use "ami-05ecac759c81e0b0c" [AmazonLinux2/1.11] [ℹ] creating EKS cluster "floral-unicorn-1540567338" in "us-west-2" region [ℹ] will create 2 separate CloudFormation stacks for cluster itself and the initial nodegroup [ℹ] if you encounter any issues, check CloudFormation console or try 'eksctl utils describe-stacks --region=us-west-2 --cluster=floral-unicorn-1540567338' [ℹ] 2 sequential tasks: { create cluster control plane "floral-unicorn-1540567338", create nodegroup "ng-98b3b83a" } [ℹ] building cluster stack "eksctl-floral-unicorn-1540567338-cluster" [ℹ] deploying stack "eksctl-floral-unicorn-1540567338-cluster" [ℹ] building nodegroup stack "eksctl-floral-unicorn-1540567338-nodegroup-ng-98b3b83a" [ℹ] --nodes-min=2 was set automatically for nodegroup ng-98b3b83a [ℹ] --nodes-max=2 was set automatically for nodegroup ng-98b3b83a [ℹ] deploying stack "eksctl-floral-unicorn-1540567338-nodegroup-ng-98b3b83a" [✔] all EKS cluster resource for "floral-unicorn-1540567338" had been created [✔] saved kubeconfig as "~/.kube/config" [ℹ] adding role "arn:aws:iam::376248598259:role/eksctl-ridiculous-sculpture-15547-NodeInstanceRole-1F3IHNVD03Z74" to auth ConfigMap [ℹ] nodegroup "ng-98b3b83a" has 1 node(s) [ℹ] node "ip-192-168-64-220.us-west-2.compute.internal" is not ready [ℹ] waiting for at least 2 node(s) to become ready in "ng-98b3b83a" [ℹ] nodegroup "ng-98b3b83a" has 2 node(s) [ℹ] node "ip-192-168-64-220.us-west-2.compute.internal" is ready [ℹ] node "ip-192-168-8-135.us-west-2.compute.internal" is ready [ℹ] kubectl command should work with "~/.kube/config", try 'kubectl get nodes' [✔] EKS cluster "floral-unicorn-1540567338" in "us-west-2" region is ready

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Customize your cluster by using a config file. Just run

eksctl create cluster -f cluster.yaml

to apply a cluster.yaml file:

apiVersion : eksctl.io/v1alpha5 kind : ClusterConfig metadata : name : basic-cluster region : eu-north-1 nodeGroups : - name : ng-1 instanceType : m5.large desiredCapacity : 10 - name : ng-2 instanceType : m5.xlarge desiredCapacity : 2

Once you have created a cluster, you will find that cluster credentials were added in ~/.kube/config . If you have kubectl v1.10.x as well as aws-iam-authenticator commands in your PATH, you should be able to use kubectl . You will need to make sure to use the same AWS API credentials for this also. Check EKS docs for instructions. If you installed eksctl via Homebrew, you should have all of these dependencies installed already.

To learn more about how to create clusters and other features continue reading the usage section.