This describes creation of K8s cluster in AWS environment from scratch as done for microservices based eCommerce project.
Pre-requisites AWS account access - IAM with Admin privileges AWS CLI installed - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-install-macos.html CLI credentials (secret key + api Key) - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/iam/index.html Kubectl and Kops local install ** see https://github.com/kubernetes/kops and https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl/ Test of access ➜ etc git:(feature/kubernetes) aws --version aws-cli/1.11.180 Python/3.6.4 Darwin/17.5.0 botocore/1.7.38 ➜ etc git:(feature/kubernetes) kubectl version Client Version: version.