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Preparing for the Cluster Setup: AWS CLI and Region

Explore the steps to install and configure AWS CLI, obtain AWS credentials, and set the default region for Amazon EC2. This lesson prepares you to create and manage a production-ready Kubernetes cluster with kOps by ensuring your AWS environment is correctly configured.

Setting Up AWS CLI

We’ll continue using the specifications from the vfarcic/k8s-specs repository, so the first thing we’ll do is to clone and go inside the directory.

git clone https://github.com/vfarcic/k8s-specs.git
cd k8s-specs

We will assume that you already have an AWS account. If that’s not the case, please head over to Amazon Web Services and sign-up.

ℹ️ If you are already proficient with AWS, you might want to skim through the text that follows and only execute the commands.

The first thing we should do is get the AWS credentials.

Please open Amazon EC2 Console, click on your ...