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Building Your First EKS Cluster

In the previous chapters, we talked about Kubernetes and EKS in detail. In this chapter, we will begin to explore how to configure and build a basic cluster.

Although EKS is a managed service from AWS, there are a number of ways you can create the cluster, using the console, Command-Line Interface (CLI), and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). There are also different configurations that can be applied to a cluster, including networking, storage, and application configurations. This chapter will focus on the prerequisites for building a cluster along with the basic configuration you need to build a cluster. Specifically, we will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding the prerequisites for building an EKS cluster ...

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