Prerequisites¶

We've tested and developed all labs on Ubuntu 20.04.4 Linux WSL. Make sure you have the following installed before going through the labs:

aws CLI per AWS Docs

sudo apt install unzip
curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
unzip awscliv2.zip
sudo ./aws/install

AWS user with ability to:
- complete AWS Marketplace purchases (the transaction in this workshop is $0 (FREE) but permissions still required). The subscription process details are explained in the next module (add policies AWSMarketplaceImageBuildFullAccess and AWSMarketplaceManageSubscriptions to your user)
- create and access EKS clusters with eksctl in your AWS account (the required minimum permissions)
- additional custom permissions to manupulate the EKS cluster
```
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "license-manager:ListReceivedLicenses",
                "iam:ListRoles"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}
```
Run AWS Configure per AWS instruction

Kubectl

curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl"
sudo install -o root -g root -m 0755 kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl
kubectl version --client

eksctl is deployed (OR a newly created EKS Cluster available). Below are the default commands:

curl --silent --location "https://github.com/weaveworks/eksctl/releases/latest/download/eksctl_$(uname -s)_amd64.tar.gz" | tar xz -C /tmp
sudo mv /tmp/eksctl /usr/local/bin
eksctl version

tar is installed (should be part of your Linux OS)

the link to video demonstration of the steps.