Using eksctl from Go

Asked Mar 02 '20 at 20:40

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I'm trying to create an AWS EKS cluster from Go.

The official SDK seems less fleshed out than the GCP equivalent. For example, I can't find a Go API for easily adding (non-managed) node groups to EKS clusters (I want to use auto-scaling spot fleets as EKS workers, which isn't supported by managed node groups).

Most EKS docs recommend using eksctl to create and manage clusters. While it's written in Go, eksctl doesn't have a very clean or documented Go API.

Are there examples of using eksctl programmatically from Go? Or are there other Go wrappers around eksctl? Or perhaps there are other libraries I haven't discovered that make it easy to spin up EKS clusters?

asked Mar 02 '20 at 20:40

Andreas Jansson

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Perhaps not exactly what you're looking for, but you might be interested in [Kubergrunt](https://github.com/gruntwork-io/kubergrunt) which interfaces with EKS from Go. – Ben Whaley Mar 02 '20 at 21:31
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I'm heavily using it in https://github.com/mhausenblas/eksphemeral/ – Michael Hausenblas Mar 03 '20 at 10:23
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Thanks @MichaelHausenblas, very helpful! It looks like you're shelling out to an eksctl subprocess, or am I misreading your code? – Andreas Jansson Mar 03 '20 at 18:44
Yup, that's right. Might want to create an issue on the `eksctl` repo and we take it from there. – Michael Hausenblas Mar 04 '20 at 13:43
There is an issue already, upvoted: https://github.com/weaveworks/eksctl/issues/813 – Andreas Jansson Mar 09 '20 at 18:12

Using eksctl from Go

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