AWS re:Invent 2018: NET410 Workshop

Workshop Environment:

• Presentation slides available on slideshare

Create ssh key-pair:

• Skip this step if you want to use your existing ssh key-pair

Using Amazon EC2 console

• To create ssh key-pair using Amazon EC2 Console, click on Amazon EC2 console.
  • Documentation can be found here
  • Verify region is set to eu-west-1 (Ireland)

Create two clusters:

• For this workshop, we will use AWS CloudFormation to create two clusters

• Launch AWS CloudFormation Template in eu-west-1 (Ireland) region

  • Launch CloudFormation template with default values except of ssh key-pair. Please use existing or newly created ssh key-pair

• Workshop activity is restricted to eu-west-1 (Ireland) region. Trying to launch AWS CloudFormation template in any other region will fail.

• AWS CloudFormation Template creates:

  • Two Amazon EC2 instances for workshop setup and management:
    1. net410-workshop-kops-mgmt
    2. net410-workshop-eks-mgmt
  • Sets up environment including installing necessary tools
  • Creates two clusters:
    1. kops - kubernetes sperations
       • 1 master node
       • 2 worker nodes across 2 availability zones
    2. Amazon EKS Cluster
       • Control plane is managed by Amazon EKS
       • 2 worker nodes across 2 availability zones

CloudFormation Template:

• NET410 Workshop Setup: CloudFormation Template