terraform-aws-eks-cluster

Terraform module to provision an EKS cluster on AWS.

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Introduction

The module provisions the following resources:

• EKS cluster of master nodes that can be used together with the terraform-aws-eks-workers, terraform-aws-eks-node-group and terraform-aws-eks-fargate-profile modules to create a full-blown cluster
• IAM Role to allow the cluster to access other AWS services
• Security Group which is used by EKS workers to connect to the cluster and kubelets and pods to receive communication from the cluster control plane
• The module creates and automatically applies an authentication ConfigMap to allow the workers nodes to join the cluster and to add additional users/roles/accounts

NOTE: The module works with Terraform Cloud.

NOTE: In auth.tf, we added ignore_changes = [data["mapRoles"]] to the kubernetes_config_map for the following reason:

• We provision the EKS cluster and then the Kubernetes Auth ConfigMap to map additional roles/users/accounts to Kubernetes groups
• Then we wait for the cluster to become available and for the ConfigMap to get provisioned (see data "null_data_source" "wait_for_cluster_and_kubernetes_configmap" in examples/complete/main.tf)
• Then we provision a managed Node Group
• Then EKS updates the Auth ConfigMap and adds worker roles to it (for the worker nodes to join the cluster)
• Since the ConfigMap is modified outside of Terraform state, Terraform wants to update it (remove the roles that EKS added) on each plan/apply

If you want to modify the Node Group (e.g. add more Node Groups to the cluster) or need to map other IAM roles to Kubernetes groups, set the variable kubernetes_config_map_ignore_role_changes to false and re-provision the module. Then set kubernetes_config_map_ignore_role_changes back to true.

Security & Compliance

Security scanning is graciously provided by Bridgecrew. Bridgecrew is the leading fully hosted, cloud-native solution providing continuous Terraform security and compliance.

Benchmark	Description
	Infrastructure Security Compliance
	Center for Internet Security, KUBERNETES Compliance
	Center for Internet Security, AWS Compliance
	Center for Internet Security, AZURE Compliance
	Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards Compliance
	National Institute of Standards and Technology Compliance
	Information Security Management System, ISO/IEC 27001 Compliance
	Service Organization Control 2 Compliance
	Center for Internet Security, GCP Compliance
	Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Compliance

Usage

IMPORTANT: We do not pin modules to versions in our examples because of the difficulty of keeping the versions in the documentation in sync with the latest released versions. We highly recommend that in your code you pin the version to the exact version you are using so that your infrastructure remains stable, and update versions in a systematic way so that they do not catch you by surprise.

Also, because of a bug in the Terraform registry (hashicorp/terraform#21417), the registry shows many of our inputs as required when in fact they are optional. The table below correctly indicates which inputs are required.

For a complete example, see examples/complete.

For automated tests of the complete example using bats and Terratest (which tests and deploys the example on AWS), see test.

Other examples:

• terraform-root-modules/eks - Cloud Posse's service catalog of "root module" invocations for provisioning reference architectures
• terraform-root-modules/eks-backing-services-peering - example of VPC peering between the EKS VPC and backing services VPC

  provider "aws" {
    region = var.region
  }

  module "label" {
    source = "cloudposse/label/null"
    # Cloud Posse recommends pinning every module to a specific version
    # version     = "x.x.x"
    namespace  = var.namespace
    name       = var.name
    stage      = var.stage
    delimiter  = var.delimiter
    attributes = compact(concat(var.attributes, list("cluster")))
    tags       = var.tags
  }

  locals {
    # The usage of the specific kubernetes.io/cluster/* resource tags below are required
    # for EKS and Kubernetes to discover and manage networking resources
    # https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/guides/eks-getting-started.html#base-vpc-networking
    tags = merge(var.tags, map("kubernetes.io/cluster/${module.label.id}", "shared"))

    # Unfortunately, most_recent (https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-eks-workers/blob/34a43c25624a6efb3ba5d2770a601d7cb3c0d391/main.tf#L141)
    # variable does not work as expected, if you are not going to use custom AMI you should
    # enforce usage of eks_worker_ami_name_filter variable to set the right kubernetes version for EKS workers,
    # otherwise the first version of Kubernetes supported by AWS (v1.11) for EKS workers will be used, but
    # EKS control plane will use the version specified by kubernetes_version variable.
    eks_worker_ami_name_filter = "amazon-eks-node-${var.kubernetes_version}*"
  }

  module "vpc" {
    source = "cloudposse/vpc/aws"
    # Cloud Posse recommends pinning every module to a specific version
    # version     = "x.x.x"
    namespace  = var.namespace
    stage      = var.stage
    name       = var.name
    attributes = var.attributes
    cidr_block = "172.16.0.0/16"
    tags       = local.tags
  }

  module "subnets" {
    source = "cloudposse/dynamic-subnets/aws"
    # Cloud Posse recommends pinning every module to a specific version
    # version     = "x.x.x"
    availability_zones   = var.availability_zones
    namespace            = var.namespace
    stage                = var.stage
    name                 = var.name
    attributes           = var.attributes
    vpc_id               = module.vpc.vpc_id
    igw_id               = module.vpc.igw_id
    cidr_block           = module.vpc.vpc_cidr_block
    nat_gateway_enabled  = false
    nat_instance_enabled = false
    tags                 = local.tags
  }

  module "eks_workers" {
    source = "cloudposse/eks-workers/aws"
    # Cloud Posse recommends pinning every module to a specific version
    # version     = "x.x.x"
    namespace                          = var.namespace
    stage                              = var.stage
    name                               = var.name
    attributes                         = var.attributes
    tags                               = var.tags
    instance_type                      = var.instance_type
    eks_worker_ami_name_filter          = local.eks_worker_ami_name_filter
    vpc_id                             = module.vpc.vpc_id
    subnet_ids                         = module.subnets.public_subnet_ids
    health_check_type                  = var.health_check_type
    min_size                           = var.min_size
    max_size                           = var.max_size
    wait_for_capacity_timeout          = var.wait_for_capacity_timeout
    cluster_name                       = module.label.id
    cluster_endpoint                   = module.eks_cluster.eks_cluster_endpoint
    cluster_certificate_authority_data = module.eks_cluster.eks_cluster_certificate_authority_data
    cluster_security_group_id          = module.eks_cluster.security_group_id

    # Auto-scaling policies and CloudWatch metric alarms
    autoscaling_policies_enabled           = var.autoscaling_policies_enabled
    cpu_utilization_high_threshold_percent = var.cpu_utilization_high_threshold_percent
    cpu_utilization_low_threshold_percent  = var.cpu_utilization_low_threshold_percent
  }

  module "eks_cluster" {
    source = "cloudposse/eks-cluster/aws"
    # Cloud Posse recommends pinning every module to a specific version
    # version     = "x.x.x"
    namespace  = var.namespace
    stage      = var.stage
    name       = var.name
    attributes = var.attributes
    tags       = var.tags
    vpc_id     = module.vpc.vpc_id
    subnet_ids = module.subnets.public_subnet_ids

    kubernetes_version    = var.kubernetes_version
    oidc_provider_enabled = false

    workers_security_group_ids   = [module.eks_workers.security_group_id]
    workers_role_arns            = [module.eks_workers.workers_role_arn]
  }

Module usage with two worker groups:

  module "eks_workers" {
    source = "cloudposse/eks-workers/aws"
    # Cloud Posse recommends pinning every module to a specific version
    # version     = "x.x.x"
    namespace                          = var.namespace
    stage                              = var.stage
    name                               = "small"
    attributes                         = var.attributes
    tags                               = var.tags
    instance_type                      = "t3.small"
    vpc_id                             = module.vpc.vpc_id
    subnet_ids                         = module.subnets.public_subnet_ids
    health_check_type                  = var.health_check_type
    min_size                           = var.min_size
    max_size                           = var.max_size
    wait_for_capacity_timeout          = var.wait_for_capacity_timeout
    cluster_name                       = module.label.id
    cluster_endpoint                   = module.eks_cluster.eks_cluster_endpoint
    cluster_certificate_authority_data = module.eks_cluster.eks_cluster_certificate_authority_data
    cluster_security_group_id          = module.eks_cluster.security_group_id

    # Auto-scaling policies and CloudWatch metric alarms
    autoscaling_policies_enabled           = var.autoscaling_policies_enabled
    cpu_utilization_high_threshold_percent = var.cpu_utilization_high_threshold_percent
    cpu_utilization_low_threshold_percent  = var.cpu_utilization_low_threshold_percent
  }

  module "eks_workers_2" {
    source = "cloudposse/eks-workers/aws"
    # Cloud Posse recommends pinning every module to a specific version
    # version     = "x.x.x"
    namespace                          = var.namespace
    stage                              = var.stage
    name                               = "medium"
    attributes                         = var.attributes
    tags                               = var.tags
    instance_type                      = "t3.medium"
    vpc_id                             = module.vpc.vpc_id
    subnet_ids                         = module.subnets.public_subnet_ids
    health_check_type                  = var.health_check_type
    min_size                           = var.min_size
    max_size                           = var.max_size
    wait_for_capacity_timeout          = var.wait_for_capacity_timeout
    cluster_name                       = module.label.id
    cluster_endpoint                   = module.eks_cluster.eks_cluster_endpoint
    cluster_certificate_authority_data = module.eks_cluster.eks_cluster_certificate_authority_data
    cluster_security_group_id          = module.eks_cluster.security_group_id

    # Auto-scaling policies and CloudWatch metric alarms
    autoscaling_policies_enabled           = var.autoscaling_policies_enabled
    cpu_utilization_high_threshold_percent = var.cpu_utilization_high_threshold_percent
    cpu_utilization_low_threshold_percent  = var.cpu_utilization_low_threshold_percent
  }

  module "eks_cluster" {
    source = "cloudposse/eks-cluster/aws"
    # Cloud Posse recommends pinning every module to a specific version
    # version     = "x.x.x"
    namespace  = var.namespace
    stage      = var.stage
    name       = var.name
    attributes = var.attributes
    tags       = var.tags
    vpc_id     = module.vpc.vpc_id
    subnet_ids = module.subnets.public_subnet_ids

    kubernetes_version    = var.kubernetes_version
    oidc_provider_enabled = false

    workers_role_arns          = [module.eks_workers.workers_role_arn, module.eks_workers_2.workers_role_arn]
    workers_security_group_ids = [module.eks_workers.security_group_id, module.eks_workers_2.security_group_id]
  }

Makefile Targets

Available targets:

  help                                Help screen
  help/all                            Display help for all targets
  help/short                          This help short screen
  lint                                Lint terraform code

Requirements

Providers

Modules

Resources

Inputs

[
  "secrets"
]

{
  "additional_tag_map": {},
  "attributes": [],
  "delimiter": null,
  "enabled": true,
  "environment": null,
  "id_length_limit": null,
  "label_key_case": null,
  "label_order": [],
  "label_value_case": null,
  "name": null,
  "namespace": null,
  "regex_replace_chars": null,
  "stage": null,
  "tags": {}
}

[
  "/bin/sh",
  "-c"
]

list(object({
    rolearn  = string
    username = string
    groups   = list(string)
  }))

list(object({
    userarn  = string
    username = string
    groups   = list(string)
  }))

[
  "0.0.0.0/0"
]

Outputs

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Related Projects

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• terraform-aws-ecs-cloudwatch-autoscaling - Terraform module to autoscale ECS Service based on CloudWatch metrics
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• terraform-aws-ec2-instance - Terraform module for providing a general purpose EC2 instance
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