Setup simple kubernetes on AWS | System Administrator

Installing Kubernetes on AWS

What is Kubernetes / K8s?

The name Kubernetes originates from Greek, meaning “helmsman” or “pilot”, and is the root of “governor” and “cybernetic”. The Kubernetes is an open-source project started by Google in 2014. It helps in automating deployment, scaling and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently introduced a managed Kubernetes service called EKS. Nevertheless, it’s still under preview mode. Therefore, at the moment Kubernetes can be installed on AWS as explained in the Kubernetes documentation either using conjure-up, Kubernetes Operations (kops), CoreOS Tectonic or kube-aws.