Deploying a multinode production-ready cluster on AWS using Kops
Kops stands for Kubernetes Operations. It is a set of tools that is used for installing, operating, and deleting Kubernetes cluster on AWS Cloud. It is considered as the production grade setup for the Kubernetes cluster.
It supports additional functionality, which is mentioned as follows:
- Deploying HA of K8s master
- Supporting easy version upgrade
- Ability to generate configuration files for AWS CloudFormation and Terraform configuration
- Supporting custom Kubernetes add-ons
When the Kubernetes cluster is up and running, we will have to use the kubectl
command to remotely connect to the master server and manage all the resources.
Getting ready
To use Kops, first of all, your system should have kubectl
installed. kubectl
is basically a command-line client tool, which is used to communicate to with the master and perform some operations. So, basically here, we need two things:
- Setting up AWS CLI on your machine and configure the access keys...