This document provides the basic instruction to set up a Kubernetes Cluster on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)​

1. Tooling Installation

1.1 Install Kubectl

Please follow this link (https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl) to install kubectl.

For Mac User

brew install kubernetes-cli

Please check kubectl version after installation.

kubectl version

1.2 Install Helm

Please follow this link (https://helm.sh/docs/using_helm/#installing-helm) to install helm.

For Mac User

brew install kubernetes-helm

Please check helm version after installation.

helm version

1.3 Install AWS CLI

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Please follow this link (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-install.html#install-tool-bundled) to install AWS CLI.

For Mac User

curl "https://d1vvhvl2y92vvt.cloudfront.net/awscli-exe-macos.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
unzip awscliv2.zip
sudo ./aws/install

1.4 Install Eksctl

Please follow this link (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/eksctl.html#installing-eksctl) to install AWS CLI.

For Mac User

brew tap weaveworks/tap
brew install weaveworks/tap/eksctl

2. (Optional) Login to your AWS account.

For first time AWS user, please register your account at https://aws.amazon.com/.

Once created the account, you can go to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to create a user and create access keys under Security Credential tab.

aws configure

3. (Optional) Create a Kubernetes cluster(EKS) in AWS

Below script will create a 3 nodes cluster named pinot-quickstart in us-west-2 with t3.small machines for demo purposes.

Please modify the parameters in the example command below:

EKS_CLUSTER_NAME=pinot-quickstart
eksctl create cluster \
--name ${EKS_CLUSTER_NAME} \
--version 1.16 \
--region us-west-2 \
--nodegroup-name standard-workers \
--node-type t3.xlarge \
--nodes 1 \
--nodes-min 1 \
--nodes-max 1 \
--node-ami auto

You can monitor cluster status by command:

EKS_CLUSTER_NAME=pinot-quickstart
aws eks describe-cluster --name ${EKS_CLUSTER_NAME}

Once the cluster is in ACTIVE status, it's ready to be used.

4. Connect to an existing cluster

Simply run below command to get the credential for the cluster pinot-quickstart that you just created or your existing cluster.

EKS_CLUSTER_NAME=pinot-quickstart
aws eks update-kubeconfig --name ${EKS_CLUSTER_NAME}

To verify the connection, you can run:

kubectl get nodes

5. Pinot Quickstart

Please follow this Kubernetes QuickStart to deploy your Pinot Demo.

6. Delete a Kubernetes Cluster

EKS_CLUSTER_NAME=pinot-quickstart
aws eks delete-cluster --name ${EKS_CLUSTER_NAME}