This little project creates the infrastructure in CDK Python for my blog post Kubernetes The (real) Hard Way on AWS.

Terraform code available 🔗HERE

You can practice creating a multi node K8s Cluster yourself for training purposes or CKA exam preparation.

• Existing AWS EC2 Key Pair
• Existing AWS Route53 Public Hosted Zone
• aws-cli Profile
• AWS CDK (npm install -g cdk)
• Python3

Default values - you can adapt all of them to your needs

• AWS CDK Python
• 1x VPC, 3x Public Subnets, 3x Private Subnets, Route Tables, Routes
• 3x Worker Nodes
• 3x Master Nodes
• 3x Etcd Nodes
• 1x Bastion Host
• Route53 Records for internal & external IPv4 addresses
• 1x Public LoadBalancer for Master Nodes (external kubectl access)
• 1x Private LoadBalancer for Master Nodes (fronting kube-apiservers)
• 1x Public LoadBalancer for Bation Host (AutoScalingGroup)
• Gets most recent Ubuntu AMI for all regions (via Boto3)
• Install awscli, cfssl, cfssl_json via UserData
• Allows external access from workstation IPv4 address only (to Bastion & MasterPublicLB)

The cdk.json file tells the CDK Toolkit how to execute your app.

This project is set up like a standard Python project. The initialization process also creates a virtualenv within this project, stored under the .env directory. To create the virtualenv it assumes that there is a python3 (or python for Windows) executable in your path with access to the venv package. If for any reason the automatic creation of the virtualenv fails, you can create the virtualenv manually.

To manually create a virtualenv on MacOS and Linux:

$ python3 -m venv .env

After the init process completes and the virtualenv is created, you can use the following step to activate your virtualenv.

$ source .env/bin/activate

If you are a Windows platform, you would activate the virtualenv like this:

% .env\Scripts\activate.bat

Once the virtualenv is activated, you can install the required dependencies.

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

At this point you can now synthesize the CloudFormation template for this code.

$ cdk synth

To add additional dependencies, for example other CDK libraries, just add them to your setup.py file and rerun the pip install -r requirements.txt command.

• cdk ls list all stacks in the app
• cdk synth emits the synthesized CloudFormation template
• cdk deploy deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region
• cdk diff compare deployed stack with current state
• cdk docs open CDK documentation

Enjoy!