Example CloudFormation Nested Stack Architecture for Elastic Kubernetes Service

Requirements:

S3 Bucket for Storage of Nested Stacks

• place the following template files into an S3 Bucket you have access to:

1. vpc.yaml
2. ekscluster.yaml
3. workernodeinstanceprofile.yaml
4. workernodesecuritygroup.yaml
5. nodegroup1.yaml
6. nodegroup2.yaml

• create a new CloudFormation Stack using parent.yaml
• you must create the parent stack using the IAM Credentials you want to access the APIServer Endpoint with!
• set parameters as desired

$ aws cloudformation create-stack --stack-name ExampleEKS --parameters file://./parentparameters.json --template-body file://./parent.yaml --capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM

• At the end of this process you will have a running EKS Cluster and you can apply the configmap to authorize the Worker Node IAM Role