Create AWS Node Pools
Creating a node pool is useful when you need to run workloads that require machines with specific resources, such as a GPU, additional memory, or specialized network or storage hardware.
Prepare the environment
Set the environment variable to the name you assigned this cluster.
CODEexport CLUSTER_NAME=aws-example
See Get Started with AWS for information on naming your cluster.
If your workload cluster is self-managed, as described in Make the New Cluster Self-Managed, configure
kubectl
to use the kubeconfig for the cluster.CODEexport KUBECONFIG=${CLUSTER_NAME}.conf
Define your node pool name.
CODEexport NODEPOOL_NAME=example
Create an AWS node pool
Availability zones (AZs) are isolated locations within data center regions from which public cloud services originate and operate. Because all the nodes in a node pool are deployed in a single Availability Zone, you may wish to create additional node pools is to ensure your cluster has nodes deployed in multiple Availability Zones.
By default, the first Availability Zone in the region will be used for the Nodes in the node pool, set --availability-zone
to create the Nodes in a different Availability Zone.
Create a new AWS node pool with 3 replicas using this command:
dkp create nodepool aws ${NODEPOOL_NAME} \
--cluster-name=${CLUSTER_NAME} \
--replicas=3
This example uses default values for brevity. Use flags to define custom instance types, AMIs, and other properties.
Advanced users can use a combination of the --dry-run
and --output=yaml
flags to get a complete set of node pool objects to modify locally or store in version control.