Prerequisites

1. Create a new 2 nodes EKS cluster (20m)

• Active AWS Cloud account and the following CLI tools installed
  • aws-cli
  • eksctl
  • kubectl

# login to AWS
aws configure

# create new Managed nodes cluster (not the Fargate), this will create 2 nodes cluster (m5.larger)
eksctl create cluster --name pixiecluster --region us-east-1

# download correct kubeconfig
eksctl utils write-kubeconfig --cluster=pixiecluster --region us-east-1

# confirm can connect to the cluster
kubectl get nodes -o wide

# install helm CLI (https://helm.sh/docs/intro/install/)
brew install helm

2. Sign up for Free New Relic One account (5m)

• Sign up for New Relic One account for free, no Credit Card required here and get your Ingest API key by:
  • Open https://one.newrelic.com/api-keys
  • Click on Create a key, select Ingest - License and give it a name
  • Click on 3 dots and select Copy key, you will need this during your hands on workshop

3. Deploy Wavesocks application to your cluster (10m)

• Deploy this e-commerce microservice application to the cluster

# create new namespace
kubectl create namespace sock-shop && \
kubectl apply -f "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvhoanganh/microservices-demo/master/deploy/kubernetes/complete-demo.yaml" \
  --namespace=sock-shop

# make sure all containers are running properly
kubectl wait --for=condition=available --timeout=450s --all deployments -n sock-shop

# get the external IP of the front-end service
kubectl get service --watch --namespace=sock-shop

• open http://<EXTERNAL-IP> and make sure you can see the application