AWS EKS Cluster Setup with Terraform

Setting up an AWS EKS cluster with addons like coredns, kube-proxy, and vpc-cni, utilizing terraform modules terraform-aws-modules/eks/aws and terraform-aws-modules/vpc/aws. It also includes configuring the AWS load balancer controller

Requirements

To create resources you will need:

• Terraform
• AWS CLI
• kubectl

How run

1 - Creation of resources

• Check for terraform remote backend in s3 exists

  is required exist a s3 with name expected in version.tf

  aws s3 ls --profile default
  # Example output:
  # 2023-10-18 19:51:18 terraform-state-516735145595     

• Download modules used in main.tf

  terraform init

• Preview the resources that will be created

  terraform plan

• Create the resources

  # Estimated time to create all resources: 20 minutes
  terraform apply 

2 - Update kubeconfig File

Update your kubeconfig file to access the created cluster

# update config file in ~/.kube
aws eks update-kubeconfig --name apps --region us-east-1

3 - Communicate with the Cluster

Use kubectl to interact with your cluster

# get all resources created in kubernetes
kubectl get all -A