installation_steps.txt

# Pre Requistes:

# Install Kubectl
sudo curl --silent --location -o /usr/local/bin/kubectl \
  https://amazon-eks.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1.17.7/2020-07-08/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/kubectl

# Update awscli
curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
unzip awscliv2.zip
sudo ./aws/install

# Install jq, envsubst (from GNU gettext utilities) and bash-completion
sudo yum -y install jq gettext bash-completion moreutils

# Install yq for yaml processing
echo 'yq() {
  docker run --rm -i -v "${PWD}":/workdir mikefarah/yq yq "$@"
}' | tee -a ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc

# Verify the binaries are in the path and executable
for command in kubectl jq envsubst aws
  do
    which $command &>/dev/null && echo "$command in path" || echo "$command NOT FOUND"
  done

# Enable kubectl bash_completion
kubectl completion bash >>  ~/.bash_completion
. /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh
. ~/.bash_completion

# Start by creating the mandatory resources for NGINX Ingress in your cluster:
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/controller-v0.35.0/deploy/static/provider/aws/deploy.yaml

#   Install Helm:
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helm/helm/master/scripts/get-helm-3 | bash

#Download latest Rancher repository
helm repo add rancher-latest https://releases.rancher.com/server-charts/latest
helm fetch rancher-latest/rancher

# Create NameSpace:
kubectl create namespace cattle-system

# The Rancher management server is designed to be secure by default and requires SSL/TLS configuration.
# Defining the Ingress resource (with SSL termination) to route traffic to the services created above 
openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout tls.key -out tls.crt -subj "/CN=ranchereksqs.awscloudbuilder.com/O=ranchereksqs.awscloudbuilder.com"

#Create the secret in the cluster:
kubectl create secret tls tls-secret --key tls.key --cert tls.crt


helm upgrade --install rancher rancher-latest/rancher \
  --namespace cattle-system \
  --set hostname=ranchereksqs.awscloudbuilder.com  \
  --set ingress.tls.source=secret