Questions tagged [eksctl]
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Not authorized to perform sts:AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity- 403
I have been trying to run an external-dns pod using the guide provided by k8s-sig group. I have followed every step of the guide, and getting the below error.
time="2021-02-27T13:27:20Z" level=error msg="records retrieval failed: failed to list…

CK5
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Your current user or role does not have access to Kubernetes objects on this EKS cluster
Don't know if this is an error from AWS or something. I created an IAM user and gave it full admin policies. I then used this user to create an EKS cluster using the eksctl CLI but when I logging to AWS console with the root user I got the below…

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failed to garbage collect required amount of images. Wanted to free 6283487641 bytes, but freed 0 bytes
I have searched many websites and articles but not found any perfect answer. I am using eks version 1.18. I can see a few of the pods are "Evicted", but when trying to check the node I can see the error "(combined from similar events): failed to…

JDGuide
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AWS System Manager GetParameters permission being implicitly denied
I am trying to setup eksctl for eks but it throwing
"Error: unable to determine AMI to use: error getting AMI from SSM Parameter Store: AccessDeniedException: User: arn:aws:iam:::user/cnc is not authorized to perform: ssm:GetParameter on resource:…

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How to set availability zones for VPC in eksctl config file?
When creating a cluster using eksctl on the command line, one can specify availability zones using the "zones" flag, like so:
eksctl create cluster \
--name example \
--version 1.16 \
--region us-east-1 \
--zones us-east-1a,us-east-1b,us-east-1c
In…

David Bruce Borenstein
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How to specify `--asg-access` in config file with eksctl?
I am trying to create a Kubernetes on AWS EKS cluster using eksctl with autoscaling enabled using proper IAM permissions. As per the documentation:
You can create a cluster (or nodegroup in an existing cluster) with
IAM role that will allow use…

Pierre B.
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eksctl create cluster stuck "waiting for CloudFormation stack"
I'm trying to create a cluster via eksctl, using defaults options, and AMI user with "AdministratorAccess", I get stuck at "waiting for CloudFormation stack"
> eksctl create cluster --name dev
[ℹ] eksctl version 0.36.0
[ℹ] using region…

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no eksctl-managed CloudFormation stacks found > Error: loading VPC spec for cluster,
I have created EKS cluster manually. Now when I am trying to create a nodegroup for Windows by following this link launch-windows-workers
I am getting this below error:-
2021-09-03 06:28:02 [!] no eksctl-managed CloudFormation stacks found for…

Money Times
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Connecting to existing EKS cluster using kubectl or eksctl
I have created one kubernetes cluster on EKS. I used eksctl create cluster to create the cluster. I am able to access everything which is great.
However, my colleague has created another cluster, and I am wondering how will I generate / get…

Tuhin Subhra Mandal
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eksctl "no clusters found"
I am currently trying out aws eks and I am havin a problem managing my cluster via eksctl. Now creating a cluster via eksctl works just fine using
eksctl create cluster --region [region] --name my-cluster
The cluster comes up correctly and it also…

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Pod creation in EKS cluster fails with FailedScheduling error
I have created a new EKS cluster with 1 worker node in a public subnet. I am able to query node, connect to the cluster, and run pod creation command, however, when I am trying to create a pod it fails with the below error got by describing the pod.…

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AWS EKS from scratch - terraform or eksctl?
Are there any benefits to spawn a new AWKS EKS cluster by using terraform or eksctl?
Are there some long-term maintenance benefits of one vs another?

DmitrySemenov
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The results of `aws eks list-nodegroups` and `eksctl get nodegroups` are inconsistent
eksctl get nodegroups --cluster=cluster-name --profile=dev
aws eks list-nodegroups --cluster=cluster-name --profile=dev
First result is correct
Second result is air as follows:
{
"nodegroups": []
}
I used these two commands to get the…

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eks create cluster command fails with Error: computing fingerprint illegal base64 data at input byte 11
I am trying to create a kubernetes cluster using EKS. The command I am using is
eksctl create cluster --name prod --version 1.14 --region us-west-2 --nodegroup-name standard-workers --node-type t3.medium --nodes 3 --nodes-min 1 --nodes-max 4…

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Error: checking AWS STS access – cannot get role ARN for current session: MissingEndpoint: 'Endpoint' configuration is required for this service
I created a cluster.yaml file which contains the below information:
---
apiVersion: eksctl.io/v1alpha5
kind: ClusterConfig
metadata:
name: eks-litmus-demo
region: ${AWS_REGION}
version: "1.21"
managedNodeGroups:
- instanceType: m5.large
…

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