Provisioning an EKS cluster using the Amazon EKS Management Console

In the Provisioning a managed Kubernetes cluster on Amazon EKS recipe, we used eksctl to deploy a cluster. As an alternative, you can also use the AWS Management Console web user interface to deploy an EKS cluster.

Perform the following steps to get your cluster up and running on Amazon EKS:

1. Open your browser and go to the Amazon EKS console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/eks/home#/clusters.
2. Enter a cluster name and click on the Next Step button.
3. On the Create Cluster page, select Kubernetes Version, Role name, at least two or more availability zones from the subnets list, and Security groups. 
4. Click on Create.

5. Cluster creation with EKS takes around 20 minutes. Refresh the page in 15-20 minutes and check its status.
6. Use the following command to update your kubectl configuration:
   

$ aws eks --region us-east-1 update-kubeconfig \
--name K8s-DevOps-Cookbook

7. Now, use kubectl to manage your cluster:

$ kubectl get nodes

Now that your cluster has been configured, you can configure kubectl to manage it.