Diego Pacheco Tech blog

In previous posts, I show how to run Istio in Minikube and with Docker-Compose/Consul in local env, today I will show how to run on AWS using KOPS. This installation is Linux based(Ubuntu), I'm running all commands from my local-desktop, if you don't use Linux(shame on you) you can create a virtual-machine on AWS with ubuntu and run this commands there, also is possible to run Vagrant with Linux and them run this commands on Vagrant box as well. Istio runs smoothly in AWS with Kops. You don't need much, pretty much 3 machines(1 master node, 2 minions).  Keep in mind this is not a production-grade setup, for production, you should be running with 3 masters at least for High Availability.

Kops is the best way to have Kubernetes running in AWS. Kops allow us to install kubernetes in EC2. Kops is written in Go . Kops helps us to create, update, maintain and destroy kubernetes clusters on aws. Kops also supports GCP(Google Could Platform). Kops has some interesting ability to generate terraform files if that's your you thing :-).  For this blog post, we will be using AWS ELB as DNS so we won't be using public DNS records which are done by setting carefully the name of the cluster - which need to end with .k8s.local. Right now is way faster to spin up a kubernetes cluster with Kops rather than EKS .