Does AWS support Kubernetes?

Question

I've read that AWS does not support Kubernetes and builds their own Docker orchestration engine EC2 Container Service. However, on Kubernetes getting-started -page there is a guide on how to run Kubernetes on AWS: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/blob/master/docs/getting-started-guides/aws.md

Which is right?

Answer 1

You can install Kubernetes on a normal Amazon EC2 server.

The new container service is a separate offering by Amazon, called ECS .

EDIT: AWS released in 2018 a new container service for Kubernetes called EKS: https://aws.amazon.com/eks/

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS. Amazon EKS runs the Kubernetes management infrastructure for you across multiple AWS availability zones to eliminate a single point of failure.

Answer 2

Kubernetes provides scripts to simple setup a cluster on a set of EC2 machines. The setup does pretty much everything needed to get started quickly.

Here is the link: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/blob/release-1.0/docs/getting-started-guides/aws.md

Answer 3

Yes its possible to setup Kubernetes on AWS See: http://kubernetes.io/v1.0/docs/getting-started-guides/aws.html

1. You can also manually setup Kubernetes on AWS by launching a EC2 instance Foe setting in Redhat ami https://access.redhat.com/articles/1353773 (Note: Kubernetes needs flannel network to be setup for managing networking between docker containers running on different hosts(minions)

Answer 4

Amazons Container Service is unrelated to Kubernetes.

There are 3 main options for installing Kubernetes on AWS:

1. CoreOS have a cli for installing and managing kubernetes on aws: https://coreos.com/kubernetes/docs/latest/kubernetes-on-aws.html

2. Kubernetes have some scripts for setting up a cluster on AWS: http://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/aws/

3. Manual installation on EC2. Lots of options here: http://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/#cloud

As an aside minikube is now a thing which is nice for running locally to try stuff out: http://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/minikube/

Answer 5

AWS recently launched EKS , which provides a managed k8s master nodes. This should be what you are looking for.

Answer 6

Yes. You can use kubeadm to install kubernetes on EC2 instances. There are other tools also available.

1. KOPS

2. EKS

3. Kubeadm