How to load pods on eks

Question

Testing out EKS, so not really sure if this is possible. But I launched an EC2 Kubernetes AMI instance, how do I go about loading/installing services/pods such as kafka/nginx? I'm not trying to use a node group or ASG, it's just a standalone server. Any help would be appreciated.

Yokesh NK · Answer

Hello,
Once you have configured the EKS successfully, you can deploy the workloads based on your requirement like you can deploy the pods like kafka/nginx using kubectl, For an example below,

You can deploy sample with the following command:

```
kubectl apply -f "https://anywhere.eks.amazonaws.com/manifests/hello-eks-a.yaml"
```

To see the new pod running in your cluster, type:

```
kubectl get pods -l app=hello-eks-a
```

Example output:

```
NAME                                     READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
hello-eks-a-745bfcd586-6zx6b   1/1     Running   0          22m
```

To check the logs of the container to make sure it started successfully, type:

```
kubectl logs -l app=hello-eks-a
```

There is also a default web page being served from the container. You can forward the deployment port to your local machine with

```
kubectl port-forward deploy/hello-eks-a 8000:80
```

Now you should be able to open your browser or use curl to http://localhost:8000 to view the page example application.

```
curl localhost:8000
```

How to load pods on eks

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