From the course: Kubernetes for Java Developers
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EKS deployment
- [Instructor] As discussed earlier, there are multiple ways to get started by creating an Amazon EKS cluster. We are on the Amazon EKS website. You can certainly click on Start using Amazon EKS, and there's a lovely Getting Started guide that you can follow along to create an EKS cluster. Eksctl, as we discussed earlier, is a third party tool created in the open-source by Amazon's partner, Weaveworks, and this tool can be used to create a EKS cluster. It provides a seamless experience where the control plain, the data plain and the connection of the data plain to the control plain is all done using a single command. In order to get started, let's first install the eksctl CLI. This command will install the eksctl CLI. As you can see, it downloaded eksctl 0.1.17. Make sure you're using the latest version of the eksctl CLI. It also downloaded the aws-iam-authenticator. The workflow for this we explained in the previous section. Our next step is to take a look at what our eksctl version…