Provision an EKS Cluster on AWS using Terraform

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What is Terraform?

Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.

The key feature of Terraform is Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) allows you to provision and manage the full technology stack using automation, by translating manual, repetitive tasks into reusable, robust, secure, and distributable code. Using IaC, you can create golden templates to simplify your work. You can continuously design-build-deploy-destroy-rollback in live environments so your network can stay agile. And you can use APIs to innovate.

Requirements

1. Clone the Terraform plan in this Repo
2. Install and configure Terraform locally or have access to Terraform Cloud
3. An AWS account and AWS CLI installed

Getting Started

1. Make sure you are in the code folder - cd tf-aws-eks-cluster
2. Initialize the directory - terraform init
3. Format and validate the configuration - terraform fmt and terraform validate
4. Create infrastructure - terraform apply

To inspect the state of your infrastructure - terraform show

SUCCESS

You have successfully stood up and entire Kubernetes cluster (EKS) in AWS.
You are now ready to deploy your application containers.
Check out how to deploy the same infrastructure using Cisco Intersight and Terraform onprem here