Overview of eksctl

March 01, 2019

https://eksctl.io/

tl;dr

Clusters

eksctl create cluster —name=cluster-3 —nodes=4 —auto-kubeconfig

Node Groups

Once clsuter is running, you’ll need to add the autoscaler yourself. See https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster-autoscaler/cloudprovider/aws/README.md.

Creating a cluster using a config file instead of flags

You can create a cluster using a config file instead of flags.

First, create cluster.yaml file:

apiVersion: eksctl.io/v1alpha3
kind: ClusterConfig

metadata:
  name: basic-cluster
  region: eu-north-1

nodeGroups:
  - name: ng-1
    instanceType: m5.large
    desiredCapacity: 10

Next, run this command:

eksctl create cluster -f cluster.yaml

This will create a cluster as described.

If you needed to use an existing VPC, you can use a config file like this:

apiVersion: eksctl.io/v1alpha3
kind: ClusterConfig

metadata:
  name: cluster-in-existing-vpc
  region: eu-north-1

vpc:
  subnets:
    private:
      eu-north-1a: { id: subnet-0ff156e0c4a6d300c }
      eu-north-1b: { id: subnet-0549cdab573695c03 }
      eu-north-1c: { id: subnet-0426fb4a607393184 }

nodeGroups:
  - name: ng-1-workers
    labels: { role: workers }
    instanceType: m5.xlarge
    desiredCapacity: 10
    privateNetworking: true
  - name: ng-2-builders
    labels: { role: builders }
    instanceType: m5.2xlarge
    desiredCapacity: 2
    privateNetworking: true
    iam:
      withAddonPolicies:
        imageBuilder: true

See directory for more sample config files.

Usage

To download the latest release, run:

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

Alternatively, macOS users can use Homebrew:

brew install weaveworks/tap/eksctl

You will need to have AWS API credentials configured. What works for AWS CLI or any other tools (kops, Terraform etc), should be sufficient. You can use ~/.aws/credentials file or environment variables. For more information read AWS documentation.

To create a basic cluster, run:

eksctl create cluster

A cluster will be created with default parameters:

• Exciting auto-generated name, e.g. “fabulous-mushroom-1527688624”
• 2x m5.large nodes (this instance type suits most common use-cases, and is good value for money)
• Use official AWS EKS AMI
• us-west-2 region
• Dedicated VPC (check your quotas)
• Using static AMI resolver

Example output

$ eksctl create cluster
[ℹ]  using region us-west-2
[ℹ]  setting availability zones to [us-west-2c us-west-2a us-west-2b]
[ℹ]  subnets for us-west-2c - public:192.168.0.0/19 private:192.168.96.0/19
[ℹ]  subnets for us-west-2a - public:192.168.32.0/19 private:192.168.128.0/19
[ℹ]  subnets for us-west-2b - public:192.168.64.0/19 private:192.168.160.0/19
[ℹ]  using "ami-0ce0ec06e682ee10e" for nodes
[ℹ]  creating EKS cluster "floral-unicorn-1540567338" in "us-west-2" region
[ℹ]  will create 2 separate CloudFormation stacks for cluster itself and the initial nodegroup
[ℹ]  if you encounter any issues, check CloudFormation console or try 'eksctl utils describe-stacks --region=us-west-2 --name=floral-unicorn-1540567338'
[ℹ]  creating cluster stack "eksctl-floral-unicorn-1540567338-cluster"
[ℹ]  creating nodegroup stack "eksctl-floral-unicorn-1540567338-nodegroup-ng-39d54824"
[✔]  all EKS cluster resource for "floral-unicorn-1540567338" had been created
[✔]  saved kubeconfig as "~/.kube/config"
[ℹ]  nodegroup "ng-39d54824" has 0 nodes
[ℹ]  waiting for at least 2 nodes to become ready
[ℹ]  nodegroup "ng-39d54824" has 2 nodes
[ℹ]  node "ip-192-168-71-20.us-west-2.compute.internal" is ready
[ℹ]  node "ip-192-168-25-215.us-west-2.compute.internal" is ready
[ℹ]  kubectl command should work with "~/.kube/config", try 'kubectl get nodes'
[✔]  EKS cluster "floral-unicorn-1540567338" in "us-west-2" region is ready
$

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