Launch A Kubernetes Cluster with Amazon EKS

Hi beautiful human. I want to take you through a short project guide on launching a Kubernetes Cluster with Amazon EKS.

N/B — Using EKS is not free-tier eligible. You will incur costs for the EKS cluster and the underlying EC2 instances.

The new terms in this project include the following —

1. Kubernetes — A platform for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
2. Amazon EKS — A managed Kubernetes service that simplifies the deployment and operation of Kubernetes on AWS.
3. Kubernetes Clusters — A group of machines that work together to run containerized applications.
4. EKS-ctl —A command-line tool for managing EKS clusters.
5. CloudFormation — A service that allows you to create and manage AWS and third-party resources through templates.
6. Events — This gives you a timeline of each action that CloudFormation is taking to set up your resources.
7. Nodegroup — A group of EC2 instances that are part of a Kubernetes cluster.
8. IAM Access Entries —IAM roles and policies that grant permissions to access and manage EKS resources.

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