From the course: Running Kubernetes on AWS (EKS)
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Clean up your cluster and associated resources
From the course: Running Kubernetes on AWS (EKS)
Clean up your cluster and associated resources
- [Instructor] You've created an EKS cluster, deployed two applications to the cluster and made those applications available on the internet. Now that you're nearing the end of the course, you'll tear it all down. It's really important that you shut down your cluster and delete any remaining resources, so you don't get a surprise bill from AWS. There are three steps to this process. First, you'll manually delete your load balancers. Go to the EC2 section of AWS. Open up your load balancing section, and you can click on these. Hit the Actions dropdown menu and Delete load balancer. You have to type the word confirm and hit Delete. All right, looks like those two load balancers were deleted. The next step is that you'll use EKS control to delete your cluster. You'll run this command: eksctl delete cluster --name lil-eks. Your cluster is deleting, and this can take up to half an hour, but when eksctl says it's done,…
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