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Boring Media Co - AWS EKS Deployment

Prerequisites

1. AWS CLI configured with appropriate permissions
2. kubectl installed and connected to EKS cluster
3. Docker installed
4. Terraform (for infrastructure provisioning)

API Key Setup

1. Get your API key from your authentication provider
2. Encode it for Kubernetes:

   echo -n "your-api-key" | base64

3. Update k8s/secret.yaml with the encoded value

Infrastructure Deployment

cd iac

# Initialize and apply Terraform
terraform init
terraform plan
terraform apply

# Get kubectl config command from output
terraform output kubectl_config_command

# Configure kubectl (use command from output)
aws eks --region <region> update-kubeconfig --name <cluster-name>

# Verify connection
kubectl cluster-info

Application Deployment

cd k8s

# Make scripts executable
chmod +x *.sh

# 1. Build and push images to ECR
./1_build-and-push.sh

# 2. Update image references in deployment files
./2_update-image-refs.sh

# 3. Deploy to EKS
./3_deploy.sh

Monitoring and Logs

# Check deployment status
kubectl get pods -n boring-media-co

# Get load balancer URL
kubectl get service ingress-nginx-controller -n ingress-nginx

# View logs for a service
kubectl logs -f deployment/sdk -n boring-media-co

Destruction

# Remove application
./4_cleanup.sh

# Remove infrastructure
cd ../iac
terraform destroy

Scripts

• 1_build-and-push.sh - Build and push Docker images to ECR
• 2_update-image-refs.sh - Update deployment files with ECR URLs
• 3_deploy.sh - Deploy application to EKS
• 4_cleanup.sh - Remove all application resources