EKS Cluster Creation

Step1 : Create an Role required for EKS Creation

To create your Amazon EKS cluster role in the IAM console

1. Open the IAM console at?https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/.
2. Choose?Roles, then?Create role.
3. Under?Trusted entity type, select?AWS service.
4. From the?Use cases for other AWS services?dropdown list, choose?EKS.
5. Choose?EKS - Cluster?for your use case, and then choose?Next.

6 .On the?Add permissions?tab, choose?Next.

7. For?Role name, enter a unique name for your role, such as?eksClusterRole.

8. For?Description, enter descriptive text such as?Amazon EKS - Cluster role.

9.Choose?Create role.

Steps2 : Steps to create an EKS Cluster

2.1 EKS -> Add Cluster -> Create

2.2 Configure Cluster

Name : sriniEKSCluster

kubernetes version : Latest version selected by default

Cluster service role : eksClusterRole ( Role created from step1)

2.3 Specify Networking

VPC : Selected the default one[ change as per the requirement]

Based on the VPC selected subnets will be populated

Security Groups : selected the default one [ change as per the requirement]

Choose Cluster IP Address family : IPV4/IPV6

Configure kubernetes service IP address range based on your requirement

Cluster endpoint access : Public (selected the default)

2.4 Configure logging

Enable/ Disable the following options

API server , Audit, Authenticator, Controller manager, Scheduler

2.5 Select Addons

Three Addons kube-proxy, coreDNS, Amazon VPC CNI will be added by default

2.6 Configure selected Addons settings

By default latest version will be selected by default for add-ons and if we want can change the versions for all the add-ons.

2.7 Review and Create

2.8 Creation of cluster will take 5 to 10 minutes of time then the status changes to Active