Deploy abcdesktop on AWS with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Requirements

• aws command line interface aws-cli

• create an EKS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service and a VPC with a NAT gateway

  You need a NAT gateway to pull images from your nodes to ghcr.io public registry. If your kubernetes nodes can't reach ghcr.io, you pod will stay in ImagePullBackOff.

• Define the environnement variables AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY AWS_SESSION_TOKEN You can retrieve credentials as often as needed from your AWS access portal.

EKS console overview

This screenshot describes the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service console. It shows the Cluster and Networking informations.

Check your caller-identity

aws sts get-caller-identity

I'm using a SandboxAdministratorAccess but you can choose others

$ aws sts get-caller-identity
{
    "UserId": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:user.namee@domain.org",
    "Account": "YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY",
    "Arn": "arn:aws:ZZZ::ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ:assumed-role/AWSReservedSSO_SandboxAdministratorAccess_ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ/user.namee@domain.org"
}

Find your cluster's name

I use eu-north-1 as my region value

aws eks list-clusters --region eu-north-1
{
    "clusters": [
        "scrumptious-dance-potato"
    ]
}

Create your kubernetes config file

Create your kubernetes config file using the aws eks update-kubeconfig command line

aws eks update-kubeconfig --region region-code --name my-cluster

In this example

aws eks update-kubeconfig --region eu-north-1 --name scrumptious-dance-potato

Run a kubectl command line like kubectl cluster-info command line to make sure that kubeconfig is defined

kubectl cluster-info 

Run the abcdesktop install script

Download and extract the latest release automatically

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abcdesktopio/conf/main/kubernetes/install-4.3.sh | bash

To get more details about the install process, please read the Setup guide

Connect to your abcdesktop service

By default install script is listening on a free tcp port :30443 and is using a kubectl port-forward command line to reach http web service :80

Open your web browser http://locahost:30443

Login as user Philip J. Fry with the password fry

After image pulling process, you get your first abcdesktop

Add applications to your desktop

Using the previous terminal shell, run the application install script

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abcdesktopio/conf/main/kubernetes/pullapps-4.3.sh | bash

To get more details about the install applications process, please read the Setup applications guide

Then reload the web page with the desktop of Philip J. Fry New applications are now listed in the dock of plasmashell

Start Firefox application

The first run may involve waiting for the image pulling process to finish

Go to https://mylocation.org website to check where your pod is running.

In my case for the region north-1, the desktop is located near Stockholm city in Sweeden.