Deploy Container Applications Using Kubernetes: Implementations with microk8s and AWS EKS

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S. SubramanianDeploy Container Applications Using Kuberneteshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9277-8_14

14. Operating the EKS Cluster

Shiva Subramanian¹  

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Georgia, GA, USA

 

In this chapter, we will learn about operating the EKS cluster we set up in the previous chapter. The typical tasks of systems engineering would be to launch workloads, adding and deleting compute nodes, setting up additional users to utilize the cluster, and so on and so forth; these are the tasks that we will detail in this chapter.

One of the first things we have to do is to set up command-line access to our cluster, which makes programmatic interaction with the cluster possible. ...