AWS on Bottlerocket

Amazon ECS

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In this quickstart, we use a number of techniques/tools like jq and environment variables to make the quickstart experience as simple and straightforward as possible. These tools are not absolutely necessary to use Bottlerocket on ECS.

Prerequisites

There are some preliminary tasks to complete in order to use ECS. You need to both set up your AWS account for use with ECS and have an IAM role for ECS configured:

Amazon EKS

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Prerequisites

In order to set up a Bottlerocket cluster on EKS, you will need the latest versions of the following tools installed:

eksctl: Used to create EKS clusters.
kubectl: Used to interact with resources within a Kubernetes cluster.
aws-cli: Used to interact with AWS services.
SSM Session Manager Plugin for AWS CLI: Used to enter SSM sessions on Bottlerocket nodes through the AWS CLI.

Cluster Setup

There are two main steps to setting up an EKS cluster: creating the configuration file and applying the configuration file using eksctl.

Host Containers

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Prerequisites

An AWS EC2 Instance ID (begins with i-) of a Bottlerocket instance
aws-cli: Used to interact with AWS services.
SSM Session Manager Plugin for AWS CLI: Used to enter SSM sessions on Bottlerocket nodes through the AWS CLI.

Interacting With a Bottlerocket Node Through Host Containers

Run the following command to enter an SSM session on the node:

aws ssm start-session --target INSTANCE_ID

Replace INSTANCE_ID with the instance ID you picked earlier.