Deploying an EKS cluster

In this section of the chapter, we will be deploying an EKS cluster using a CLI utility called eksctl. Then, we will access the endpoint using kubectl, which is a command-line binary to access Kubernetes resources.

To create the EKS cluster, perform the following steps:

1. We need to install the ekctl CLI binary by using the following commands:

   $ curl --silent --location "https://github.com/weaveworks/eksctl/releases/latest/download/eksctl_$(uname -s)_amd64.tar.gz" | tar xz -C /tmp
   $ sudo mv /tmp/eksctl /usr/local/bin
   $ eksctl version

2. We will create an ec2 key pair so that we can use that key pair to SSH into a worker Node if required:

   $ aws ec2 create-key-pair --key-name celestial --region us-east-1 > celestial.pem 

3. Once we have a key pair, we will create an EKS cluster using eksctl. For now, we are creating a public endpoint EKS cluster. We will create a private endpoint EKS cluster in the next chapter:

   $ eksctl create cluster ...