Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Import EKS Cluster

You can add an existing Kubernetes cluster and then manage it using KKP.

Navigate to External Clusters page.
Click the Import External Cluster button

External Cluster

Pick Elastic Kubernetes Engine provider.

Select Provider

Provide Credentials in either of the below mentioned ways:
- Select a pre-created preset which stores the provider specific credentials.
- Manually enter the credentials Access Key ID, Secret Access Key and select Region

Region is also kept as a part of a preset as it is a required value to create an EKS client.

After user provides all required credentials, credentials will be validated.

Validation performed will only check if the credentials have Read access.

EKS credentials

You should see the list of all available clusters in the region specified. Select the one and click the Import Cluster button. Clusters can be imported only once in a single project. The same cluster can be imported in other projects.

Select EKS cluster

Create EKS Preset

Admin can create a preset on a KKP cluster using KKP Admin Panel. This Preset can then be used to Create/Import an EKS cluster.

Click on Admin Panel from the menu.

Select Admin Panel

Navigate to Provider Presets Page and Click on + Create Preset button.

Provider Preset Page

Enter Preset Name.

Provide Preset Name

Choose Elastic Kubernetes Service from the list of providers.

Choose EKS Preset

Enter EKS credentials and Click on Create button.

Enter Credentials

You can now use created EKS Preset to Create or Import EKS Cluster.

Select EKS Preset

Cluster Details Page

After the cluster is added, the KKP controller retrieves the cluster kubeconfig to display all necessary information. A healthy cluster has Running state. Move the mouse cursor over the state indicator to get more details.

EKS cluster

You can also expand Events to get information from the controller.

Cluster Events

You can also click on Machine Deployments to get the details:

EKS Machine Deployment

Update Cluster

Upgrade Version

To upgrade, click on the little dropdown arrow beside the Control Plane Version on the cluster’s page and select the version from the dropdown. For more details about EKS available Kubernetes versions Amazon EKS Kubernetes versions

Upgrade Available

Upgrade EKS

If the upgrade version provided is valid, the cluster state will change to Reconciling

Edit the Machine Deployment

Only one operation can be performed at one point of time. If the replica count is updated then Kubernetes version upgrade will be disabled and vice versa.

Navigate to the cluster overview, scroll down to machine deployments.
Click on the edit icon next to the machine deployment you want to edit.

Update EKS Machine Deployment

Upgrade Kubernetes Version. Select the Kubernetes Version from the dropdown to upgrade the md.
Scale the replicas: In the popup dialog, you can increase or decrease the number of worker nodes that are managed by this machine deployment. Either specify the number of desired nodes or use the + or - to increase or decrease node count.

Update EKS Machine Deployment

Delete Cluster

Delete operation is not allowed for imported clusters.

Delete cluster operation allows to delete the cluster from the Provider. Click on the Delete button.

Delete Cluster

Delete the Node Group

Navigate to the cluster overview, scroll down to machine deployments and click on the delete icon next to the machine deployment you want to delete.

Update EKS Machine Deployment

Authenticating with EKS

The KKP platform allows getting kubeconfig file for the EKS cluster. The end-user must be aware that the kubeconfig expires after some short period of time. It’s recommended to create your kubeconfig file with the AWS CLI.

Configure AWS credentials

The AWS CLI uses credentials and configuration settings located in multiple places, such as the system or user environment variables, local AWS configuration files, or explicitly declared on the command line as a parameter.

The AWS CLI stores sensitive credential information that you specify with aws configure in a local file named credentials, in a folder named .aws in your home directory. The less sensitive configuration options that you specify with aws configure are stored in a local file named config, also stored in the .aws folder in your home directory.

Example:

~/.aws/credentials

[default]
aws_access_key_id=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
aws_secret_access_key=wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY

Create kubeconfig file

Now you can create kubeconfig file automatically using the following command:

aws eks update-kubeconfig --region region-code --name cluster-name

By default, the resulting configuration file is created at the default kubeconfig path (.kube/config) in your home directory or merged with an existing kubeconfig file at that location. You can specify another path with the --kubeconfig option.