This tutorial will walk you through building a Kubernetes cluster with Kops in AWS Beijing or NingXia Region.

Prepare the AMI

Install Kops and Kubectl client on your laptop

Create a proxy server with gost in AWS N. Virginia Region

Create a proxy forwarder in AWS Beijing Region

Create the cluster with Kops

Check the latest AMI ID from Kops Images document and find the AMI ID in the global regions(e.g. N. Virginia).

However, as the China Beijing region already has latest CoreOS AMI, you can just check CoreOS official EC2 AMI page and select the AMI for cn-north-1 region, make sure you select the HVM AMI type. For example, current AMI ID is ami-0d5ec5d735beb907e (Container Linux 1800.7.0). Please note the latest AMI ID may change over time.

• install kops
• install kubectl

click the button to create a proxy server with gost and AWS Fargate in any of the following regions.

Region	Launch Stack in VPC	Runtime
Oregon (us-west-2)		Fargate+ECS
N. Virginia (us-east-1)		Fargate+ECS

Depending on which region you woud like to provision your Kops cluster, click the button below to create an internal http_proxy forwarder for your Kops cluster. This template will create one t2.micro EC2 behind ELB in your existing VPC as the proxy forwarder.

Region	Launch Stack in VPC	Runtime
Beijing (cn-north-1)		EC2+ELB
NingXia (cn-northwest-1)		EC2+ELB

Depending on what region you intend to deploy your Kops, follow the fastboot guide below to continue your setup.

delete the cluster

$ kops delete cluster --name cluster.bjs.k8s.local --yes

And delete the two cloudformation stacks from N.Virginia and Beijing regions.

Questions? check the FAQ list here.