Setting Up AWS CLI

📝 A Couple of notes to Windows users

Defining the Region

Setting Up AWS CLI

We’ll continue using the specifications from the vfarcic/k8s-specs repository, so the first thing we’ll do is to clone and go inside the directory.

git clone https://github.com/vfarcic/k8s-specs.git

cd k8s-specs

We will assume that you already have an AWS account. If that’s not the case, please head over to Amazon Web Services and sign-up.

ℹ️ If you are already proficient with AWS, you might want to skim through the text that follows and only execute the commands.

The first thing we should do is get the AWS credentials.

Please open Amazon EC2 Console, click on your name from the top-right menu and select My Security Credentials. You will see the screen with different types of credentials. Expand the Access Keys (Access Key ID and Secret Access Key) section and click the Create New Access Key button. Expand the Show Access Key section to see the keys.

You will not be able to view the keys later on, so this is the only chance you’ll have to Download Key File.

We’ll put the keys as environment variables that will be used by the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

Please replace [...] with your keys before executing the commands that follow.