---
title: "Amazon EKS Cluster"
description: "An EKS cluster"
url: "https://www.pulumi.com/dev/examples/aws-yaml-eks/"
image: "https://www.pulumi.com/assets/og/dev/examples/aws-yaml-eks.png"
---

# Amazon EKS Cluster

An EKS cluster

- Source on GitHub: https://github.com/pulumi/examples/tree/master/aws-yaml-eks

## Get started with this example

This example lives in the [pulumi/examples](https://github.com/pulumi/examples/tree/master/aws-yaml-eks) repo. Pull down just this directory to follow along:

```bash
git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/pulumi/examples pulumi-examples
git -C pulumi-examples sparse-checkout set aws-yaml-eks
cd pulumi-examples/aws-yaml-eks
```

This example deploys an EKS Kubernetes cluster inside the default AWS VPC.

## Deploying the App

To deploy your infrastructure, follow the below steps.

## Prerequisites

1. [Install Pulumi](https://www.pulumi.com/docs/get-started/install/)
1. [Configure Pulumi for AWS](https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/cloud-providers/aws/setup/)

## Deploying and running the program

1.  Create a new stack:

    ```
    $ pulumi stack init dev
    ```

1.  Set the AWS region:

    ```
    $ pulumi config set aws:region us-east-2
    ```

1.  Run `pulumi up` to preview and deploy changes:

    ```
    $ pulumi up
    Previewing changes:
    ...

    Performing changes:
    ...
    Resources:
        + 28 created

    Duration: 10m0s
    ```

1.  Check the deployed kubeconfig:

    ```
    $ pulumi stack output kubeconfig
    {"apiVersion":"v1","clusters":[{"cluster":{"certificate-authority-data":"LS0tLS1CRUdJTiBDR...
    ```