gitpod/install/aws-full-terraform

Gitpod AWS Terraform

1. Create S3 Bucket for remote state
2. Configure a Route 53 Hosted zone to your domain
3. Configure backend.hcl to match the S3 Bucket
4. Fill out main.auto.tfvars to match what you want (and put in the name of the hosted zone where required)
5. (Optional) configure any additional helm values in the values.yml file
6. Run make init
7. Run make apply
8. Confirm the plan
9. Go get coffee (this could take a while)
10. Come back, if its done then go to the domain you specified in the tfvars file and play with your new configuration

FAQ

Q: I get "OptInRequired: You are not subscribed to this service. Please go to http://aws.amazon.com to subscribe."

A: Your account seems to be missing a credit card. Go to https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup?type=resubscribe#/resubscribed and finish the subscription process.

Q: I get "Status Reason: The requested configuration is currently not supported"

A: Switch to another AWS region often helps. Some machines are not available in all regions.

Q: I get "Error: Service "proxy" is invalid: spec.ports[0].nodePort: Invalid value: 31080: provided port is already allocated" on re-applying the terraform script

A: Wait 2-5mins (cmp. Kubernetes issues 32987 and 73140)

Q: One of my pods throws errors reading "networkPlugin cni failed to set up pod "" network: add cmd: failed to assign an IP address to container"

A: Seems like the pod-per-node limit is reached: https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-eks-ami/blob/master/files/eni-max-pods.txt (?)