Preparing for the Cluster Setup: AWS CLI and Region
Prepare for the setup of our production-ready cluster by setting up AWS CLI and default region environment variables.
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Setting Up AWS CLI
We’ll continue using the specifications from the vfarcic/k8s-specs repository, so the first thing we’ll do is to clone and go inside the directory.
git clone https://github.com/vfarcic/k8s-specs.gitcd k8s-specs
We will assume that you already have an AWS account. If that’s not the case, please head over to Amazon Web Services and sign-up.
ℹ️ If you are already proficient with AWS, you might want to skim through the text that follows and only execute the commands.
The first thing we should do is get the AWS credentials.
Please open Amazon EC2 Console, click on your name ...