Getting Started with EKS and Terraform

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In this video we take a look at creating an EKS cluster using Terraform!
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[@MarcelDempers]

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[@myleraghavendra]

I tried to use your code , Im facing this issue while I give terraform apply "Error running command 'for i in `seq 1 60`; do wget --no-check-certificate -O - -q $ENDPOINT/healthz >/dev/null && exit 0 || true; sleep 5; done; echo TIMEOUT && exit 1': exec: "/bin/sh": file does not exist. Output:"

[@muhaimintaib]

Not sure why this guy still don’t have millions subscribers. He’s the master of sharing knowledge with absolute clarity.

[@hlinc2]

This channel is a textbook definition of a hidden gem

[@roylee3196]

He is so underrated! Love your energy, keep it up Marcel.

[@gleepwurp1974]

You're a lifesaver! I've been trying to get that running for the last 2 weeks, and you've made it clear in 18 minutes!

[@jainkrohit]

your videos are just superb Marcel. Whenever I want to learn something new around DevOps.. the first that I do is just follow ur videos & it gives me a lot of good foundation. Love you mate.

[@trentmurray2467]

That "Seriously underrrated" DevOps Guy strikes again. So much perfectly delivered content in this video. Well done.

[@nicolassantos6824]

Man, you are an amazing instructor. This tutorial is just awesome. You just earned a new sub.

[@davidblane8318]

I’ve watched so many of your videos, amazing work dude keep it up

[@lurhq343]

Always just what we need - Thanks Marcel!!! Great video!

[@PANDApoopish]

Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you

[@eam16707]

Thank you - one of the best teachers out there

[@OfficeNothanks]

Super useful, I was searching for something like this for some time.

[@lindelaninthangeni8221]

Dude, you are good. you really simplify it. well done!

[@fluorescent_axolotl]

Beautifully explained, subscribed!

[@FreeSpeechWarrior]

Your videos are like accelerated versions or courses that I can stop, backup, try as I please without all the nonsensical time wasting of an entire course. You rock man. Can you please make a video of setting up Rancher to work with the same types of Kubernetes clusters that you're creating please?

[@08marciogeraldo]

The best! Very good videos and your explanations are simple and clear. Thanks!

[@sirkarim1111]

Incredible! Love the attention to details, making sure you don't leave the important stuff behind. ++

[@klipseracer]

Love your videos dude, marginally entertaining and gets the important parts across. Request: Can you explain more about EKS node groups?

[@TheChihuhua]

Bless you sir!

[@musclecode]

your vids are awesome ! keep it up

[@christianibiri]

I'm loving your videos! I really Do! Keep doing stuff like this...

[@jaysistar2711]

Nice! I just did this process with Terraform, and I had to have some Windows worker nodes. Taints and Tollerations are really helpful there, since pods will schedule on a Windows node, and fail to start if you don't have them.

[@sagarchamlagai]

Deserves million views. 🙌🙏

[@renzochepar]

Awesome Overview !

[@sags3112]

awesome video buddy..thanks for making such a super video

[@smanihwr]

Great one. Thank you!!

[@davoodsahebsyed8514]

Superb!! Excellent Keep going

[@carlosayalav]

So powerfull !! Thanks Devops Guy

[@jameswilford5225]

Your videos are the best! We are actually already using terraform with eks but I watched to see if you did it differently. One thing I noticed, you exported the kubectl_config from the eks module, but then you don't actually use it in the kubernetes deployment like you said. You actually used the cluster certificate and token, which is a better way to do it.

[@camilovieira181]

Great! Thanks a lot !!!

[@Han-ws8he]

Thanks! I realized that the latest terraform version (>= v1) having issue with this tutorial. I downloaded the older version (0.14) and it works.

[@elibukin4840]

+1

[@SureshKumar-ow2ji]

Excellent 😍

[@bled_2033]

Really usefull!

[@burnsnewman]

Would love similar videos about GKE and GCP services!

[@kingsleyattuah9015]

Hello Marcel, nice tutorial. Still very much relevant in 2023. But you might want to updated version because quite a number of the modules have been deprecated. Well done👍

[@andyhails4847]

This is great and really helpful - although examples are somewhat out of date now. At the time of writing this, version 18.9.0 is out for terraform-aws-modules/eks/aws module with some significant differences.

[@180doman]

Exactly.

[@Drety6]

0:30 - 1:01 : hell yeah man

[@jaysistar2711]

Something else that I've found while using Terraform with Kubernetes: Helm Charts can, and really need to, be used to add Terraform expressions to a deployment. The Kubernetes provider can create some resources, but the Kubernetes Alpha version has to be used to specify CRDs, and everything has to be done in HCL (the base language of Terraform). With the Helm provider, you just use Helm Charts (templated yaml), and you're good. You can basically use your existing yaml files. That way, you never have to use kubectl apply for anything.

[@jaysistar2711]

I guess I should leave my comment alone. I corrected a spelling error, and it removed the heart! I guess that makes sence. I could have said A with which you agreed, and edited it to say B with which you disagreed. In this case, though, it was just a spelling correction.

[@AbulHasanLakhani]

I assume we could just create a dockerfile for that initial container setup as well? This is just to save some manual installation steps everytime we want to repeat this process

[@MarcelDempers]

For sure 💪🏽

[@koolkravi]

Nice video. Would setup a Bastian host to access k8s cluster .

[@praxunix6122]

Outstanding, EKS Terraform to the point explanation !! could you elaborate on map_roles = var.map_roles, map_users = var.map_users - incase role need to be created via Terraform. Thank again.

[@aleksandrspiskunovs1867]

Hi, thanks for great videos. But in this one, i cant see any compute node in created EKS cluster. How can i get just created autscaling work_group to EKS? I need it, to be able to modify Compute node count (maximum, desire, minimum) if needed through aws web ui.

[@ynh2804]

Do you have recommended way to attach a new NIC to each eks node?

[@hotcake1336]

Terraform says "list" is now deprecated as of v0.12 and is no longer supported, so I try using tolist([...]) like it recommended. Now I get errors saying tolist is not a valid constructor and I can't terraform apply it. WHAT!??

[@hotcake1336]

Well anyway, that deprecation broke everything, so I can't even use this example anymore. I don't know what I'm supposed to replace "list" with since "tolist" isn't working and terraform doesn't even explain properly how to fix it, especially the two lists with Objects inside them.

[@Vera150607]

@@hotcake1336 easy fix, this whole problem is related wit the versions of terraform you're using, so just replace list("")), 0) with tolist([""])), 0)

[@germinikkii]

Nice video dude. Could you please explain how to implement Jenkins in EKS but using Terraform? Thanks

[@ajadavis2000]

would it be best practice to put an api gateway on top of the nginx ingress point?

[@halilulrahamane8798]

Error: Error in function call │ Thanks, followed video instructions with git repo reference and end up with version issue. any thought ..? │ on .terraform/modules/vpc/outputs.tf line 518, in output "vpc_endpoint_ecs_telemetry_id": │ 518: value = "${element(concat(aws_vpc_endpoint.ecs_telemetry.*.id, list("")), 0)}" │ │ Call to function "list" failed: the "list" function was deprecated in Terraform v0.12 and is no longer available; use tolist([ ... ]) │ syntax to write a literal list.

[@user-uh6th6kv4c]

I ran into same error too same error, yet to fix it

[@shreyaspatil498]

Treid with your code but it is saying no nodes available to schedule pods how to tackle it?

[@chrisscole]

Love your videos! Ever thought about doing a Kubernetes mysql replica tutorial with an operator?

[@Kk-rl7nv]

Can you please suggest how we can declare our own custom vpc if we have suppose 5 vpc called VPC A,B, C, D,E and wants to spin up EKS separately in VPC A and vpc B only then how?

[@jdubeau007]

Can you create a playlist for the K8 on mirror clouds providers as well AWS EKS playlist.

[@derencevoo9146]

Hi Marcel, I follow your steps but not sure why I don't see node groups in the eks console and the worker ec2, although created not registeres as a node in the cluster, what might have gone wrong?

[@derencevoo9146]

@Valar Morghulis yes I did, but I forgot what fixed it

[@George-mk7lp]

which terraform version did u use?

[@guyrawsthorn461]

Hi ThatDevOpsGuy - Amazon Video - Have you got an exmaple of deployments running on EKS using Fargate profiles?

[@alexbrewers6685]

love your videos. instead of creating a worker group, can you help me modify the code to include a node group? the worker group isn't technially a node group ( at least in the front end Console)

[@smashit002]

Hello Sir, Needing your help to understand the combination of Terraform, EKS & Helm. Could you please make a video? I have been added to a project at work recently with all these 3 combinations and I am new to all 3. I see you have EKS with Helm and EkS with Terraform. Can you please make a short video with all 3 with an example? It will be of great help, thank you !

[@mdmoniruzzaman703]

This is awesome. could you please update this since it's bit old now..

[@Maks-nf5bo]

How to connect to Docker via vscode?

[@palanisamy-dl9qe]

Do you have terraform module video for cluster auto scale

[@szihai]

Can you do one video about Tekton and another one on Flagger? Thanks.

[@anonymous3472]

Nice Video, @That DevOps Guy what VS code Theme are you using?

[@MarcelDempers]

Amethyst Dark 💪🏽

[@anonymous3472]

@@MarcelDempers Thank you

[@saurabhchopra]

My eyes my eyes 😩

[@georgelza]

any chance you have a video where you marry the creation of a EKS cluster with a pre created VPC with subnets (created by another team using CloudFormation)

[@dqfold5557]

Hi, This video is interresting because it's an alternative with your previous video "Introduction to Amazon EKS Kubernetes for beginners" You replace kubetctl + eksctl by Terrafom. I like very much Terraform but it seems strange to write the YAML manifest in HCL. With manifests in HCL, we also loose the power of Kustomize tool as seen in you previous video "Simplify Kubernetes YAML with Kustomize" We also loose the possibility to make CI/CD with flux as seen in "Kubernetes GitOps with Flux CD" I am lost here. I know you prefer simple solutions (so you prefer exclude things like Helm). What's better for you : - This solution : Using Terrafom ? And kuberctl is only here to query the cluster ? - Or you previous solution : Using eksctl + kubectl + kustomize (and optionnaly flux) ? And thanks again for your excellents videos !

[@MarcelDempers]

Thanks 💪🏽 There is a third scenario of storing all cluster manifests in cluster using Flux too. Ultimately, I don't think there is a right or wrong approach. Some go eksctl + full on ArgoCD, others Flux, others Terraform. I think it really depends on what you and your team are comfortable with. If you're a Terraform shop, stick to Terraform. Hashicorp is releasing a new K8s Alpha provider with a k8s-to-tf conversion tool. If you're a Terraform shop, it makes sense to go that path in sync with what you do. You may just use shell\bash\powershell and spin up your clusters and that's ok too. (Keep that in Git). OR - You may keep static templates in Git, package it as Helm charts and roll it out manually or via CI and that's ok too. Or go Flux and keep every cluster as a Git Repo. Personally I'd start by keeping my cluster creation scripts in Bash (

[@dqfold5557]

​@@MarcelDempers Thank you Marcel :)

[@ravindarsinghchoudhary8244]

any series service mesh intro with python + django + Kubernetes + Terraform

[@kojitechs]

Great content Dude, but terraform have updated this module using ur code as is would break

[@aujwalyaj]

Getting Failed to install providers

[@aujwalyaj]

This is a MAX_PATH issue and is now resolved.

[@teste-yh5df]

You teach so many complicated things, what is your salary lol?over 10k? u genius

[@ogbeisibor3193]

too fast for beginners. thanks anyway.

[@karan12399]

Any leads will be profoundly helpful. Got this error while running the code in VS code in windows os: Error: Your query returned no results. Please change your search criteria and try again. on .terraform/modules/eks/data.tf line 27, in data "aws_ami" "eks_worker_windows": 27: data "aws_ami" "eks_worker_windows" {