Creating your EKS cluster
In this section of the chapter, we will be creating a fully private EKS cluster manually so that we will become aware of each small component integration. Let's get started.
VPC, subnet, and endpoint creation
The first thing to do is to create a network backbone for the EKS infrastructure. You need to create a VPC, three private subnets, and one public subnet. The three private subnets will be dedicated to the EKS-managed worker node. We will spin up a bastion server in the public subnet to connect to the private EKS cluster endpoint. Perform the following steps to create a VPC and public subnet:
- Go to the VPC console. You will be at the VPC dashboard. Click on Your VPCs on the left-hand side. Then click on Create VPC on the right-hand side.
Figure 5.1 – VPC console
- You will see the Create VPC page. In VPC settings, provide the following details:
- Name tag:
dso-eks-vpc. - IPv4 CIDR block:
10.0.0.0/22...
- Name tag:
