kube-aws tool for provisioning a CoreOS/Kubernetes cluster on AWS

Summary

• A Docker build for the kube-aws command line tool, used to build Kubernetes on AWS. For more info, see Kubernetes on AWS
• This image is built from the Alpine Linux base image.

Requirements

• Docker 🐳 - if you are on Mac, checkout the Docker Toolbox
• An AWS account and API credentials - AWS

To build the Docker image and provision a cluster

AWS Credentials

• The supported way to provide AWS credentials to kube-aws is by exporting the following environment variables:

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AKID1234567890
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=MY-SECRET-KEY

Cluster Assets

• Follow the kube-aws README to create the KMS key and cluster assets README
• Run the container and mount the cluster assets to validate, render and provision.

$ docker run -v $(pwd):/root/ --rm danielwhatmuff/kube-aws-docker kube-aws < render | validate | up >

• Control the cluster using danielwhatmuff/kubectl Docker image

$ kubectl --kubeconfig=kubeconfig get nodes

Contributing

File issues in GitHub to report bugs or issue a pull request to contribute.