Create EKS cluster

There are several options available for creating an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster on AWS. Among those are the following:

• The Modular and Scalable Amazon EKS Architecture reference deployment developed by AWS solutions architects.

• The CircleCI aws-eks Orb.

• The eksctl command-line tool.

For the purposes of these exercises, eksctl will suffice. To create the cluster, run the following command:

eksctl create cluster \
--name snyk-circleci-eks \
--version 1.16 \
--region us-west-2

It can take approximately 15 minutes for your cluster to be provisioned. When your cluster is ready, you will be able to run kubectl get svc and see results.