Preparing for the Cluster Setup: IAM Group and User
In this lesson, we will create an Identity and Access Management group and a user.
In this lesson, we’ll create a few Identity and Access Management (IAM) resources. Even though we could create a cluster with the user you used to register to AWS, it is a good practice to create a separate account that contains only the privileges we’ll need for the exercises that follow.
Creating the IAM Group
First, we’ll create an IAM group called kops.
aws iam create-group \--group-name kops
The output is as follows.
{"Group": {"Path": "/","CreateDate": "2018-02-21T12:58:47.853Z","GroupId": "AGPAIF2Y6HJF7YFYQBQK2","Arn": "arn:aws:iam::036548781187:group/kops","GroupName": "kops"}}
We don’t care much for any of the information from the output except that it does not contain an error message thus confirming that the group was created successfully.
Next, we’ll assign a few policies to the group thus providing the future users of the group with sufficient permissions to create the objects we’ll need.
Since our ...