Install Portworx on AWS EKS using the DaemonSet

This topic explains how to install Portworx with EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service). Follow the steps in this topic in order.

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NOTE: You can follow these procedures to deploy Portworx on AWS Outposts.

Prepare

Granting Portworx the needed AWS permissions

Install

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If you are not using instance privileges, you must also specify AWS environment variables in the DaemonSet spec file. The environment variables to specify (for the KOPS IAM user) are:

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<id>,AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<key>

If generating the DaemonSet spec via the GUI wizard, specify the AWS environment variables in the List of environment variables field. If generating the DaemonSet spec via the command line, specify the AWS environment variables using the e parameter.