Tools & Prerequisites

Required Tools

eksctl

Official CLI for EKS cluster creation and management.

brew install eksctl
# or
curl --location "https://github.com/eksctl-io/eksctl/releases/latest/download/eksctl_$(uname -s)_amd64.tar.gz" | tar xz -C /tmp
sudo mv /tmp/eksctl /usr/local/bin/

kubectl

Kubernetes CLI for interacting with clusters.

brew install kubectl
# or
curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl"

AWS CLI v2

curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
unzip awscliv2.zip
sudo ./aws/install

IAM Permissions

Minimum IAM policy for cluster creation:

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "eks:CreateCluster",
        "eks:DescribeCluster",
        "eks:ListClusters"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Verify Installation

eksctl version
kubectl version --client
aws --version

References

• eksctl Documentation
• kubectl Installation
• AWS CLI Installation