Project Setup Guide

This guide walks you through the setup of a Pulumi project that creates an AWS EKS cluster along with the necessary VPC configurations and a bastion host for secure access. We will use Pulumi with Python, configure AWS CLI, and set up kubectl to interact with the EKS cluster.

Prerequisites:

• AWS Account
• Git installed on your machine
• Python installed on your machine

Tools Installation

1. AWS CLI

Install the AWS CLI to interact with AWS services directly from your terminal: macOS:

brew install awscli

Linux:

sudo apt-get install awscli

Windows: Download from AWS CLI and install using the provided installer.

Configure AWS CLI:

aws configure

This command will prompt you to enter your AWS credentials which include:

• AWS Access Key ID
• AWS Secret Access Key
• Default region name
• Default output format

2. Pulumi

Install Pulumi to manage your infrastructure as code:

macOS and Linux:

curl -fsSL https://get.pulumi.com | sh

Windows: Download the installer from Pulumi's website.

Set up the Pulumi project:

pulumi new python

This command creates a new Pulumi project in Python and includes initializing a virtual environment and installing the pulumi Python package.

3. kubectl

Install kubectl to manage the Kubernetes cluster:

macOS:

brew install kubectl 

Linux:

sudo apt-get install kubectl

Windows: Download from Kubernetes.io and follow the installation instructions.

Creating Infrastructure

Clone the GitHub repository where the Pulumi project is located:

git clone https://github.com/novandrautomo17/iaac-pulumi.git
cd iaac-pulumi

Set up Python environment:

Install Python dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Initialize a new stack (if not already done):

pulumi stack init dev

Set the AWS region:

pulumi config set aws:region ap-southeast-1 #change the region accordingly

Preview and deploy the infrastructure:

pulumi preview

pulumi up

Accessing the EKS Cluster

Configure kubectl to connect to your new EKS cluster:

pulumi stack output kubeconfig > kubeconfig.yaml
export KUBECONFIG=$PWD/kubeconfig.yaml
kubectl get nodes

Cleaning Up

To destroy the resources:

pulumi destroy

To remove the stack:

pulumi stack rm dev