1-Connect-To-EKS.md

Connecting To Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

When you're deploying locally, without any CI/CD to EKS, you'll need to authenticate from your local terminal.

Once you authenticate to EKS from your local terminal, a kubeconfig gets stored on your computer. The kubeconfig has all of the connection information and authentication needs to connect to EKS.

Connecting To EKS

1. Run the following command to connect to EKS: aws eks --region *your_aws_region* update-kubeconfig --name *your_eks_cluster_name

2. Once connected, you should be able to run commands like the following to confirm you're connected: kubectl get nodes