Demo project accompanying a Consul crash course video on YouTube

Terraform commands to execute the script

# initialise project & download providers
terraform init

# preview what will be created with apply & see if any errors
terraform plan

# exeucute with preview
terraform apply -var-file terraform.tfvars

# execute without preview
terraform apply -var-file terraform.tfvars -auto-approve

# destroy everything
terraform destroy

# show resources and components from current state
terraform state list

Get access to EKS cluster

# install and configure awscli with access creds
aws configure

# check existing clusters list
aws eks list-clusters --region eu-central-1 --output table --query 'clusters'

# check config of specific cluster - VPC config shows whether public access enabled on cluster API endpoint
aws eks describe-cluster --region eu-central-1 --name myapp-eks-cluster --query 'cluster.resourcesVpcConfig'

# create kubeconfig file for cluster in ~/.kube
aws eks update-kubeconfig --region eu-central-1 --name myapp-eks-cluster

# test configuration
kubectl get svc