Create a High-Availability Kubernetes Cluster on AWS with Kops

Wed, 16 Jan 2019 14:58:56 +0000

This article has a bit more of DevOps flavour than the previous articles, focused more on Elixir. In this article I show how to easily run a multi-zone Kubernetes cluster on AWS, where we’ll deploy a Phoenix Chat application.

There are many ways to deploy a Kubernetes cluster on AWS (Amazon Web Services). At the moment, AWS offers EKS, Elastic Kubernetes Service, which helps us deploy and manage our Kubernetes clusters. It costs $0.20/hr, which is $144/month: that’s not cheap actually, especially if we want to run a small cluster. And it’s not just about the cost: I find EKS still too young, preferring kops over it.

kops on Poeticoding

Create a High-Availability Kubernetes Cluster on AWS with Kops