README.md

Platform Engineering Exercise

Overview

This repository contains the code for the Platform Engineering Exercise. The exercise is to create a Kubernetes cluster in AWS using Terraform.

Table of Contents

• Platform Engineering Exercise
  • Overview
  • Table of Contents
  • Getting Started
    • Prerequisites
    • Architecture
    • Components
    • Installing
    • Uninstalling

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Terraform
• AWS CLI
• kubectl
• flux2 (optional)

Architecture

The architecture sequence diagram can be found here.

Components

• VPC

• EKS Cluster

  • EKS Addon: EBS CSI Driver | The EBS CSI driver addon is added to the Amazon EKS cluster to allow Kubernetes to use Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes as persistent volumes in the cluster.

• ECR Repository

• Flux2 with Helm (Optional)

• nginx with Helm (Optional)

The dependencies can be found here. It has been generated using terraform-docs

Installing

terraform init
terraform apply

Uninstalling

terraform destroy

If you get an error related nodegroups, you can delete the nodegroup and cluster manually.

aws eks list-nodegroups --cluster-name exercise-eks
aws eks delete-nodegroup --cluster-name exercise-eks --nodegroup-name exercise-eks-default-winning-chipmunk
aws eks delete-cluster --name exercise-eks