Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Overview

This topic describes the steps to deploy a Kubernetes Cluster on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS.)

Deploy a Kubernetes Cluster

To deploy a Kubernetes Cluster on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud using Amazon EKS:

1. Login to your HCP account.

2. Navigate to Service Orchestration > Services > Containers.

3. Click Create New Kubernetes Cluster and then click New.
   
   

4. Enter a Name for your Kubernetes Cluster.

5. Select the following:

   1. Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) from the Target drop-down

   2. High Availability from the Type drop-down

   3. At least two of your HyperCloud™ Platform (HCP) Resource Pool from the Resource Pool(s) drop-down

   4. Machine Type

      Notes

      • You'll need to select your machine time based on the workload.

      • We recommend that you select instance type with more than 2 vCPUs.

   5. 3 or higher from the Node Count Per Zone from the drop-down

   6. From the Auto-Scaling section:

      1. Number of Minimum Workers per Pool from the drop-down. 

      2. Number of Maximum Workers per Pool from the drop-down. 
   7. Role ARN from the drop-down

   8. Optionally, you can enable these Entitled Users:

      • Only me (default)

      • Everyone

      • Groups and Users: lets other users deploy Kubernetes Apps to your Cluster

6. Click Save Changes.