Creating Amazon EKS resources with Amazon CloudFormation
Amazon EKS is integrated with Amazon CloudFormation, a service that helps you model and set up your Amazon resources so that you can spend less time creating and managing your resources and infrastructure. You create a template that describes all the Amazon resources that you want, for example an Amazon EKS cluster, and Amazon CloudFormation takes care of provisioning and configuring those resources for you.
When you use Amazon CloudFormation, you can reuse your template to set up your Amazon EKS resources consistently and repeatedly. Just describe your resources once, and then provision the same resources over and over in multiple Amazon accounts and Regions.
Amazon EKS and Amazon CloudFormation templates
To provision and configure resources for Amazon EKS and related services, you must understand Amazon CloudFormation templates. Templates are formatted text files in JSON or YAML. These templates describe the resources that you want to provision in your Amazon CloudFormation stacks. If you're unfamiliar with JSON or YAML, you can use Amazon CloudFormation Designer to help you get started with Amazon CloudFormation templates. For more information, see What is Amazon CloudFormation Designer? in the Amazon CloudFormation User Guide.
Amazon EKS supports creating clusters and node groups in Amazon CloudFormation. For more information, including examples of JSON and YAML templates for your Amazon EKS resources, see Amazon EKS resource type reference in the Amazon CloudFormation User Guide.
Learn more about Amazon CloudFormation
To learn more about Amazon CloudFormation, see the following resources: