Preparing the Base Machine

The steps provided here install the software required for running the various EKS commands for setting up and working with the Protegrity Anonymization API cluster.

1. Log in to your system as an administrator.

2. Open a command prompt with administrator.

3. Install the following tools to get started with creating the EKS cluster.

   1. Install AWS CLI 2, which provides a set of command line tools for the AWS Cloud Platform.

      For more information about installing the AWS CLI 2, refer to Installing or updating to the latest version of the AWS CLI.

   2. Configure AWS CLI on your machine by running the following command.

      aws configure
      

      You are prompted to enter the AWS Access Key ID, Secret Access Key, AWS Region, and the default output format where these results are formatted.

      For more information about configuring AWS CLI, refer to Configuring settings for the AWS CLI.

      You need to specify the credentials of IAM User created in the section Verifying the Prerequisites to create the Kubernetes cluster.

      AWS Access Key ID [None]: <AWS Access Key ID of the IAM User 1>
      AWS Secret Access Key [None]: <AWS Secret Access Key of the IAM User 1>
      Default region name [None]: <Region where you want to deploy the Kubernetes cluster>
      Default output format [None]: json
      

   3. Install Kubectl version 1.34, which is the command line interface for Kubernetes.

      Kubectl enables you to run commands from the Linux instance so that you can communicate with the Kubernetes cluster.

      For more information about installing kubectl, refer to Set up kubectl and eksctl in the AWS documentation.

   4. Install the following command line tools for creating the Kubernetes cluster on AWS (EKS):

      • eksctl: Install eksctl which is a command line utility to create and manage Kubernetes clusters on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS).

        For more information about installing eksctl on the Linux instance, refer to Set up to use Amazon EKS.

   5. Install the Helm client version 4.1.1 for working with Kubernetes clusters.

      For more information about installing the Helm client, refer to Installing Helm.