Amazon EKS Create and Delete Cluster

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External

Internal

Creation Procedure

Create a dedicated IAM role following the procedure described here. Use the "EKS - Cluster" use case.

Edit the role trust relationship and ensure that the IAM user used to create the cluster (arn:aws:iam::999999999999:user/some.user) has sts:AssumeRole for the IAM role. This is how to enable an IAM User to assume an IAM Role.

Create a dedicated VPC and associated resources using the pre-defined CloudFormation stack as described here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started-console.html.

  • Use "public and private subnets" option.
  • Do not specify an IAM role.


Write down the name of the stack, as it may be needed to delete the resources.

Record VpcId, SecurityGroups, SubnetId


  • Create the cluster. From the Console → EKS → Create Cluster:
    • Cluster Service Role
    • Next
    • VPC
    • Subnets (all existing are preselected)
    • Security groups: use Control Plane Security Group.
    • Custer Endpoint Access

Deletion Procedure

Delete the cluster.

Remove the associated resources by running Delete on the CloudFormation stack used to create resources.

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