Perform the following steps to get your managed Kubernetes-as-a-service cluster up and running on Amazon EKS using eksctl:

1. Create a cluster using the default settings:

$ eksctl create cluster
...
[√] EKS cluster "great-outfit-123" in "us-west-2" region is ready

By default, eksctl deploys a cluster with workers on two m5.large instances using the AWS EKS AMI in the us-west-2 region. eksctl creates and exports the Kubernetes configuration under ~/.kube/config. Therefore, no additional steps are required to connect your clusters using kubectl.

2. Confirm the cluster information and workers:

$ kubectl cluster-info && kubectl get nodes
Kubernetes master is running at https://gr7.us-west-2.eks.amazonaws.com
CoreDNS is running at https://gr7.us-west-2.eks.amazonaws.com/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/kube-dns:dns/proxy
NAME                                  STATUS ROLES  AGE   VERSION
ip-1-2-3-4.us-west-2.compute.internal Ready  <none> 5m42s v1.13.8-eks-cd3eb0
ip-1-2-3-4.us-west-2.compute.internal Ready  <none> 5m40s v1.13.8-eks-cd3eb0

Now, you have a two-node Amazon EKS cluster up and running.