func/docs/provisioning/provision_eks.md

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# Provisioning an Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) Cluster
Amazon EKS is a fully managed Kubernetes service suitable for production deoployments. The below instructions were compiled using the following dependency versions:
* eksctl v1.15
* kubernetes v1.15
[Offical EKS Documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started.html)
## AWS CLI tools
Install Python 3 via system package manager, and the AWS cli tools via pip:
```
pip install awscli --upgrade --user
```
## AWS Account
Install the AWS IAM Authenticator
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator
Create AWS account(s) via the AWS console:
https://console.aws.amazon.com/
Users _of_ the cluster require no permissions at this point, but the user _creating_ the cluster does. Once configured, set the local environment variables:
```
AWS_REGION=us-east-2
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=[redacted]
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=[redacted]
```
Or use aws credentials. To configure the CLI to use credintials, for instance:
To `~/.aws/config` append:
```
[profile alice]
region = us-west-2
output = json
```
To `~/.aws/credentials` append:
```
[alice]
aws_access_key_id = [redacted]
aws_secret_access_key = [redacted]
```
The profile to use can then be configured using the environment varaible:
AWS_PROFILE=alice
(note that [direnv](https://direnv.net/) can be handy here.)
## SSH key
Generate cluster SSH key, saving into `./keys/ssh`
```
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096
```
## Cluster Resources
Install `eksctl`
https://github.com/weaveworks/eksctl
Provision the cluster using `eksctl`. For example, the configuration file `./eks/cluster-config.yaml` will create a single-node cluster named "prod" in the "us-west-2" region if used:
```
eksctl create cluster -f eks/config-cluster.yaml
```
## Users
Install users by modifying the template to include the ARN and username of the IAM users to give access to the cluster:
```
kubectl patch -n kube-system configmap/aws-auth --patch "$(cat eks/users.yaml)"
```
## Verify Cluster Provisioned
You should be able to retrieve nodes from the cluster, which should include coredns, kube-proxy, etc.
```
kubectl get po --all-namespaces
```
## Administration
See the [eksctl](https://eksctl.io) documentation for how to adminster a cluster, such as [cluster upgrades](https://eksctl.io/usage/cluster-upgrade/) using this helper CLI.