Amazon EKS Operations
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Overview
Cluster Information
Cluster Status
aws eks [--region us-east-1] describe-cluster --name example-cluster --query "cluster.status"
"ACTIVE"
If the right region is configured in the profile, there is no need to be specified.
Cluster Endpoint
aws eks [--region us-east-1] describe-cluster --name example-cluster --query "cluster.endpoint" --output text
https://FDXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.gr0.us-east-1.eks.amazonaws.com
If the right region is configured in the profile, there is no need to be specified.
Cluster Certificate Authority
aws eks --region us-east-1 describe-cluster --name example-cluster --query "cluster.certificateAuthority.data" --output text
LS0t...LQo=
Connect to an EKS Cluster with kubectl
Update .kube/config with the EKS cluster definition as follows:
aws eks --region us-east-1 update-kubeconfig --name example-eks-cluster [--alias <context-alias>]
If no alias is used, the default is the cluster ARN.
The result is to add a new context to .kube/config:
Added new context arn:aws:eks:us-east-1:999999999999:cluster/example-eks-cluster to /Users/testuser/.kube/config
The default name of the context is the name of the IAM role, but it can be changed to make it more wieldy.