Helm, Kubectl and helmsman for EKS

This repository contains all tools to access your EKS cluster in AWS and ships Helmsman, Helm, kubectl and aws-iam-authenticator in one small docker image.

Run

docker run -it \
           -e AWS_EKS_CLUSTER_NAME=sample-123456 \
           -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<key> \
           -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<secret> \
           widerin/eks-helmsman

Set your cluster by running following command in the container:

aws eks update-kubeconfig --name=$AWS_EKS_CLUSTER_NAME

Environment variables

• AWS_EKS_CLUSTER_NAME: Your EKS cluster name in AWS console
• AWS_ACCESS_KEY and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: AWS credentials to access the cluster

Helpers available in the image

• helmsman
• helm: You might want to use this image to just use it with helm and ignore the helmsman binary.
• kubectl
• awscli
• aws-iam-authenticator
• envsubst: substitute environment variables with envsubst '$VAR1 $VAR2' < file1.yaml > file2.yaml.