Installing the command-line tools to configure AWS services

In this recipe, we will get the AWS Command-Line Interface (CLI) awscli and the Amazon EKS CLI eksctl to access and configure AWS services.

Let's perform the following steps:

Install awscli on your workstation:

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install awscli

Configure the AWS CLI so that it uses your access key ID and secret access key:

$ aws configure

Download and install the Amazon EKS command-line interface, eksctl:

$ curl --silent --location "https://github.com/weaveworks/eksctl/releases/download/latest_release/eksctl_$(uname -s)_amd64.tar.gz" | tar xz -C /tmp
$ sudo mv /tmp/eksctl /usr/local/bin

Verify its version and make sure eksctl is installed:

$ eksctl version

To be able to perform the following recipes, the eksctl version should be 0.13.0 or later.