How to Set Up an Amazon EKS Cluster and Deploy an Nginx Service Using AWS CLI

Introduction

Kubernetes control plane or nodes. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through setting up an EKS cluster using the AWS CLI and deploying an Nginx service that displays a custom message. This tutorial is perfect for anyone looking to get hands-on experience with EKS using only the AWS CLI.

Get all the scripts and steps from my GitHub: https://github.com/Here2ServeU/aws-eks/.

Also, you can watch my demo of this on YouTube below.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, make sure you have the following:

1. AWS CLI: Installed and configured with your AWS credentials.

2. kubectl: Installed on your local machine.

3. IAM Permissions: Ensure your AWS account has the necessary permissions to create EKS clusters and related resources.

Create an EKS Cluster

aws eks create-cluster --name <name-of-cluster> --region <your-region> 

Replace <name-of-cluster> with your desired cluster name and <your-region> with the region where to deploy your EKS…