Introduction

Last update: August 12th, 2017 Author: @kubernauts

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Kops (Kubernetes Operations) is currently the most popular way for deployment, operation, upgrade and decommissioning of Kubernetes Clusters on AWS. A huge thanks to Kris Nova and the Kops team for this brilliant implementation.

If you’re new to Kubernetes please refer to the fantastic Kubernetes Bootcamp and learn the basics interactively with the integrated Katacoda implementation.

Note: there is a NEW exciting project “Kubicorn” from Kris Nova which you should consider to run Kubernetes on AWS and later on ANY Cloud.

This guide is based on the Kops documentation on Github and inspired by Manage Kubernetes Clusters on AWS Using Kops by Arun Gupta and some additional help from the great docs on kubernetes.io site to help you get started very fast to use the latest Kops to deploy multiple Kubernetes clusters on AWS. I recommend to read the great documentation on Github and enjoy Arun’s post.

This guide is the 1st part of a series and shows only the basic installation steps to deploy one or more HA K8s Clusters on AWS and how to deploy some existing apps via Helm Pack to our Kubernetes Cluster(s).

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