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Steps to access EKS cluster

Login into AWS console from the Event Engine dashboard

Event Engine

Remeber to only use "ap-southeast-1" as your region Event Engine

Select EC2 from Management Console and select Instances (running). You should see a EC2 instance called SplunkWorkshop-box

Event Engine

Now select SplunkWorkshop instance and select connect Event Engine

Verify EKS cluster

Select EC2 Instance Connect tab and click connect. This will open an SSH session to the EC2 instance. Once the instance is opened check the running EKS cluster. You should see a cluster named

eksctl get cluster --region ap-southeast-1

Update Kubectl

aws eks --region ap-southeast-1 update-kubeconfig --name eksworkshop-eksctl

Test Kubectl

kubectl get nodes
If we see our 2 nodes, we know we have authenticated correctly

Install Helm 3

curl -fsSL -o get_helm.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helm/helm/master/scripts/get-helm-3

chmod 700 get_helm.sh
./get_helm.sh

Get Workshop content

wget https://github.com/splunk/imt-workshop/archive/refs/heads/master.zip
unzip master.zip
mv imt-workshop-master workshop

Last update: June 9, 2021