AWS CLI

EKS Commands

Elastic Kubernetes Service

4 commands

Commands

List clusters

$ aws eks list-clusters --region us-east-1 --output table

List all EKS clusters in region.

Describe cluster

$ aws eks describe-cluster --name production-cluster --region us-east-1 --query 'cluster.[status,version,endpoint]' --output table

Get detailed cluster information and status.

Update kubeconfig

$ aws eks update-kubeconfig --name production-cluster --region us-east-1 --alias prod-eks

Configure kubectl to access EKS cluster.

Create node group

$ aws eks create-nodegroup --cluster-name production-cluster --nodegroup-name app-nodes --node-role arn:aws:iam::123456789:role/EKSNodeRole --subnets subnet-xxx subnet-yyy --scaling-config minSize=2,maxSize=10,desiredSize=3 --instance-types t3.medium

Create managed node group with autoscaling.