You're reading from Mastering Elastic Kubernetes Service on AWS Deploy and manage EKS clusters to support cloud-native applications in AWS

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803231211

Length 448 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Yang-Xin Cao

Malcolm Orr

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Getting Started with Amazon EKS

2. Chapter 1: The Fundamentals of Kubernetes and Containers FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Introducing Amazon EKS

4. Chapter 3: Building Your First EKS Cluster

5. Chapter 4: Running Your First Application on EKS

6. Chapter 5: Using Helm to Manage a Kubernetes Application

7. Part 2: Deep Dive into EKS

8. Chapter 6: Securing and Accessing Clusters on EKS

9. Chapter 7: Networking in EKS

10. Chapter 8: Managing Worker Nodes on EKS

11. Chapter 9: Advanced Networking with EKS

12. Chapter 10: Upgrading EKS Clusters

13. Part 3: Deploying an Application on EKS

14. Chapter 11: Building Applications and Pushing Them to Amazon ECR

15. Chapter 12: Deploying Pods with Amazon Storage

16. Chapter 13: Using IAM for Granting Access to Applications

17. Chapter 14: Setting Load Balancing for Applications on EKS

18. Chapter 15: Working with AWS Fargate

19. Chapter 16: Working with a Service Mesh

20. Part 4: Advanced EKS Service Mesh and Scaling

21. Chapter 17: EKS Observability

22. Chapter 18: Scaling Your EKS Cluster

23. Chapter 19: Developing on EKS

24. Part 5: Overcoming Common EKS Challenges

25. Chapter 20: Troubleshooting Common Issues

26. Index

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Common cluster access problems

This section lists common issues when trying to access your EKS cluster. The next few sections describe common symptoms and how to fix them.

You cannot access your cluster using kubectl

Interacting with your cluster API through kubectl or as part of a CI/CD pipeline or tool is a critical part of using EKS! Some common problems are listed next, along with potential solutions.

Note

While the errors shown next may point to a specific problem, they may also be related to an issue not documented here.

In the error message shown, the shell has no credentials configured as environment variables or as a profile in the ~/.aws directory:

$ kubectl get node
Unable to locate credentials. You can configure credentials by running "aws configure".
$ aws eks update-kubeconfig --name mycluster  --region eu-central-1
Unable to locate credentials. You can configure credentials by running "aws configure".

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