Prerequisites

Complete the following prerequisites prior to installing MKE on AWS.

  1. Log in to the AWS Management Console.

  2. Assign your instance a host name using the ip-<private ip>.<region>.compute.internal template. For example, ip-172-31-15-241.us-east-2.compute.internal.

  3. Tag your instance, VPC, and subnets by specifying kubernetes.io/cluster/<unique-cluster-id> in the Key field and <cluster-type> in the Value field. Possible <cluster-type> values are as follows:

    • owned, if the cluster owns and manages the resources that it creates

    • shared, if the cluster shares its resources between multiple clusters

    For example, Key: kubernetes.io/cluster/1729543642a6 and Value: owned.

  4. To enable introspection and resource provisioning, specify an instance profile with appropriate policies for manager nodes. The following is an example of a very permissive instance profile:

    {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [ "ec2:*" ],
          "Resource": [ "*" ]
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [ "elasticloadbalancing:*" ],
          "Resource": [ "*" ]
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [ "route53:*" ],
          "Resource": [ "*" ]
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "s3:*",
          "Resource": [ "arn:aws:s3:::kubernetes-*" ]
        }
      ]
    }
    
  5. To enable access to dynamically provisioned resources, specify an instance profile with appropriate policies for worker nodes. The following is an example of a very permissive instance profile:

    {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "s3:*",
          "Resource": [ "arn:aws:s3:::kubernetes-*" ]
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "ec2:Describe*",
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "ec2:AttachVolume",
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "ec2:DetachVolume",
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [ "route53:*" ],
          "Resource": [ "*" ]
        }
    }