The next step in setting up EKS is creating worker nodes that will join your EKS cluster. Unlike the Kubernetes master nodes that are fully managed by AWS, you are responsible for creating and managing your worker nodes. AWS provide an EKS-optimized AMI that includes all of the software required to join an EKS cluster and operate as an EKS worker. You can browse to https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/eks-optimized-ami.html to obtain the latest AMI ID for your region:
Amazon EKS-Optimized AMI
At the time of writing this book, the EKS-Optimized AMI requires extensive configuration using the cfn-init framework ...
