Running BE on AWS Fargate using EKS

Setup Fargate EKS Cluster using below steps

Pre-requisites

• Setup eksctl cli.Ensure that the eksctl version is at least 0.19.0-rc.0
• Setup AWS cli. Amazon EKS requires at least version 1.16.156 of the AWS CLI
• Setup kubectl

Cluster Setup

Create your Amazon EKS Fargate cluster and worker nodes with the following command:

        eksctl create cluster --name ${CLUSTER_NAME} --version 1.17 --fargate

After the cluster is created run the below command to check if the Fargate profiles are created for default and kube-system namespaces.

        eksctl get fargateprofile --cluster ${CLUSTER_NAME}

Create a file system for fargate referring to Amazon EFS access points section in here.

For Cleanup:

• The cluster can be deleted using the below command:

        eksctl delete cluster --name ${CLUSTER_NAME}

Next topic: Continue to Setup Registry