Install Kubernetes Tools

Amazon EKS clusters require kubectl and kubelet binaries and the aws-cli or aws-iam-authenticator binary to allow IAM authentication for your Kubernetes cluster.

In this workshop we will give you the commands to download the Linux binaries. If you are running Mac OSX / Windows, please see the official EKS docs for the download links.

Install kubectl

sudo curl --silent --location -o /usr/local/bin/kubectl https://amazon-eks.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1.14.6/2019-08-22/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl


sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/kubectl

Install jq, envsubst (from GNU gettext utilities) and bash-completion

sudo yum -y install jq gettext bash-completion

Verify the binaries are in the path and executable

for command in kubectl jq envsubst
  do
    which $command &>/dev/null && echo "$command in path" || echo "$command NOT FOUND"
  done

Enable kubectl bash_completion

kubectl completion bash >>  ~/.bash_completion
. /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh
. ~/.bash_completion