Running on AWS

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 () to install kubectl.

For Mac User

Please check kubectl version after installation.

1.2 Install Helm

Please follow this link () to install helm.

For Mac User

Please check helm version after installation.

1.3 Install AWS CLI

Please follow this link () to install AWS CLI.

For Mac User

1.4 Install Eksctl

Please follow this link () to install AWS CLI.

For Mac User

2. (Optional) Login to your AWS account.

For first time AWS user, please register your account at .

Once created the account, you can go to to create a user and create access keys under Security Credential tab.

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

The script below will create a 1 node cluster named pinot-quickstart in us-west-2 with a t3.xlarge machine for demo purposes:

You can monitor the cluster status via this command:

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.

To verify the connection, you can run:

5. Pinot Quickstart

Please follow this to deploy your Pinot Demo.

6. Delete a Kubernetes Cluster