Install eksctl

For this workshop you will use eksctl. Once you install eksctl, you will be ready to get started.

At the terminal command prompt, enter the following two commands:

curl --silent --location "https://github.com/weaveworks/eksctl/releases/latest/download/eksctl_$(uname -s)_amd64.tar.gz" | tar xz -C /tmp
sudo mv /tmp/eksctl /usr/local/bin

This will install eksctl in your Cloud9 environment. To test to make sure the command is installed properly, execute the command:

eksctl get cluster

You should get a “No clusters found” message. Running the following command will indicate which version of the command line tool you have installed:

eksctl version

For the current workshop, we will be using eksctl 0.53 or newer. Please verify the version, as some features are only available in the 0.53 version of eksctl and newer.