Overview
In this workshop, we will walk through deploying a sample retail store application on Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) using a combination of CloudFormation and Terraform. This guide is divided into logical stages, from setting up foundational infrastructure to running your app on Spot and Graviton instances.
Step 1: Set Up AWS Infrastructure with CloudFormation
We’ll start by using AWS CloudFormation to provision the foundational network infrastructure (VPC, subnets, Internet Gateway, etc.) that EKS requires.
What to do:
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Create a CloudFormation stack using a predefined template (YAML/JSON)
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Include resources:
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VPC
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Public and Private Subnets
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NAT Gateways
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Route Tables
Launching the CloudFormation stack using a predefined template to set up a code-server IDE for the EKS workshop.
Reviewing permissions and acknowledging IAM capabilities before creating the eks-workshop-ide CloudFormation stack.
CloudFormation stack eks-workshop-ide created successfully with status CREATE_COMPLETE.
The CloudFormation stack will take roughly 5 minutes to deploy, and once completed you can retrieve information required to continue from the Outputs tab:
The IdeUrl output contains the URL to enter in your browser to access the IDE. The IdePasswordSecret contains a link to an AWS Secrets Manger secret that contains a generated password for the IDE.
To retrieve the password open that URL and click the Retrieve button, the password will then be available for you to copy::
Open the IDE URL provided and you will be prompted for the password:
After submitting your password you will be presented with the initial VSCode screen
