eksctl

The official CLI for Amazon EKS. More information: https://eksctl.io.

• Create a basic cluster:

eksctl create cluster

• List the details about a cluster or all of the clusters:

eksctl get cluster --name=name --region=region

• Create a cluster passing all configuration information in a file:

eksctl create cluster --config-file=path/to/file

• Create a cluster using a configuration file and skip creating nodegroups until later:

eksctl create cluster --config-file=<path> --without-nodegroup

• Delete a cluster:

eksctl delete cluster --name=name --region=region

• Create cluster and write cluster credentials to a file other than the default:

eksctl create cluster --name=name --nodes=4 --kubeconfig=path/to/config.yaml

• Create a cluster and prevent storing cluster credentials locally:

eksctl create cluster --name=name --nodes=4 --write-kubeconfig=false

• Create a cluster and let eksctl manage cluster credentials under the ~/.kube/eksctl/clusters directory:

eksctl create cluster --name=name --nodes=4 --auto-kubeconfig