1. Pre-requisites
The Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is one of the AWS services for deploying, managing and scaling any distributed and containerized workloads, here we can provision the EKS cluster on AWS from the ground up using terraform (infra-as-code) and then deploy the DIGIT platform services as config-as-code using Helm.
Pre-reads
Know about EKS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsUnPWp5ilc
Know what is terraform: https://youtu.be/h970ZBgKINg
Prerequisites
AWS account with the admin access to provision EKS Service, you can always subscribe to free AWS account to learn the basics and try, but there is a limit to what is offered as free, for this demo you need to have a commercial subscription to the EKS service, if you want to try out for a day or two, it might cost you about Rs 500 - 1000.
Note: Post the Demo, for the eGov internal folks, you can request for the AWS access for 4 hrs time bound access to eGov's training AWS account upon on the request and available number of slots per day)
Install kubectl on your local machine that helps you interact with the kubernetes cluster
Install Helm that helps you package the services along with the configurations, envs, secrets, etc into a kubernetes manifests
Install terraform version (0.14.10) for the Infra-as-code (IaC) to provision cloud resources as code and with desired resource graph and also it helps to destroy the cluster at one go.
If you already have a different version of the terraform version running install tfswitch that would allow you to have multiple terraform version in the same machine and toggle between the desired versions.
Setup AWS Account
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