The Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is the AWS service an abstracted infrastructure requirement for deploying, managing, and scaling DIGIT on AWS.

Prerequisites

• AWS account with the IAM permissions listed on the EKS module documentation

• AWS CLI configured

• AWS IAM Authenticator

• kubectl

Set up and initialize your Terraform workspace

‌Clone the following repository:

git clone https://github.com/egovernments/eGov-infraOps.git
cd eGov-infraOps/terraform

└── modules
    ├── db
    │   └── aws
    │       ├── main.tf
    │       ├── outputs.tf
    │       └── variables.tf
    ├── kubernetes
    │   └── aws
    │       ├── eks-cluster
    │       │   ├── main.tf
    │       │   ├── outputs.tf
    │       │   └── variables.tf
    │       ├── network
    │       │   ├── main.tf
    │       │   ├── outputs.tf
    │       │   └── variables.tf
    │       └── workers
    │           ├── main.tf
    │           ├── outputs.tf
    │           └── variables.tf
    └── storage
        └── aws
            ├── main.tf
            ├── outputs.tf
            └── variables.tf

In here, you will find three modules used to provision a EKS cluster, RDS, and Storage.

Kubernetes module:

• VPC Resources:

  • VPC

  • Subnets

  • Internet Gateway

  • Route Table

• EKS Cluster Resources:

  • IAM Role to allow EKS service to manage other AWS services

  • EC2 Security Group to allow networking traffic with EKS cluster

  • EKS Cluster

• EKS Worker Nodes Resources:

  • IAM role allowing Kubernetes actions to access other AWS services

  • EC2 Security Group to allow networking traffic

  • Data source to fetch latest EKS worker AMI

  • AutoScaling Launch Configuration to configure worker instances

  • AutoScaling Group to launch worker instances

Database Module:

Configuration in this directory creates set of RDS resources including DB instance, DB subnet group and DB parameter group.

Storage Module:

Configuration in this directory creates EBS volume and attach it together.

Set up an environment

Here, you will find five files used to provision a VPC, security groups, iam users, storages, EKS cluster, s3 bucket. The final product should be similar to this:

├── dev
│   ├── main.tf
│   ├── outputs.tf
│   ├── providers.tf
│   ├── remote-state
│   │   └── main.tf
│   └── variables.tf
├── qa
    ├── main.tf
    ├── outputs.tf
    ├── providers.tf
    ├── remote-state
    │   └── main.tf
    └── variables.tf

Source for the each modules in the main.tf is from the modules like:

../modules/storage/aws
../modules/kubernetes/aws/eks-cluster

Configuration in this directory creates set of:

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• s3 bucket: to store terraform state.

• Network: VPC, security groups.

• iam users auth: using keybase to create admin, deployer, user.

  • Example user keybase user"egovterraform" needs to be created and has to uploaded his public key here - https://keybase.io/egovterraform/pgp_keys.asc

• EKS cluster: with master(s) & worker node(s).

• Storage(s): for es-master, es-data-v1, es-master-infra, es-data-infra-v1, zookeeper, kafka, kafka-infra.

cd eGov-infraOps/terraform/dev
terraform init
terraform apply
terraform output

The Kubernetes tools can be used to verify the newly created cluster. Once terraform apply execution is done it will generate the Kubernetes configuration file or you can get it from terraform state.

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Set an environment variable so that kubectl picks up the correct config.

export KUBECONFIG=./kube_config_file_name

Verify the health of the cluster.

kubectl get nodes

You should see the details of your worker nodes, and they should all have a status Ready.