Preparing for the Cluster Setup: IAM Group and User

Learn to create an Identity and Access Management group and a user.

In this lesson, we’ll create a few Identity and Access Management (IAM) resources. Even though we could create a cluster with the user you used to register to AWS, it’s good practice to create a separate account with only the privileges that we’ll need for the following exercises.

Creating the IAM group

First, we’ll create an IAM group called kops.

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