reference deployment
Tigera Calico for Amazon EKS
Open-source network-policy enforcement on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
Calico provides open-source networking and network security for containers, virtual machines (VMs), and hosted workloads. It delivers native Linux-kernel performance and scalability, and users are provided a consistent set of capabilities for running environments either on-premises or in a cloud environment. Calico supports both single- and multi-node clusters for many platforms, such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker EE, and OpenStack.
This Quick Start is for developers and administrators who want to apply network-policy enforcement to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters. This deployment provides a rich network policy model that helps secure communications by controlling traffic flows. Clusters deployed by this Quick Start are upgradable for enterprise-grade security and compliance use cases.
This Quick Start was developed by Tigera in partnership with AWS. Tigera is an AWS Partner.
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What you'll build
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How to deploy
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Cost and licenses
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What you'll build
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Use this Quick Start to set up the following Tigera Calico for Amazon EKS. Note that this module is based on the Modular and Scalable Amazon EKS Architecture Quick Start.
- Tigera Operator and associated resources in its own namespace.
- A custom resource that configures the Calico installation.
- Calico resources in the calico-system namespace.
* The template that deploys the Quick Start into an existing VPC skips the tasks marked by asterisks and prompts you for your existing VPC configuration.
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How to deploy
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To build Tigera Calico for Amazon EKS, follow the instructions in the deployment guide. The deployment process takes about 5–30 minutes and includes these steps:
- If you don't already have an AWS account, sign up at https://aws.amazon.com.
- Prepare an existing EKS cluster.
- Launch the Quick Start.
- Test the deployment.
Amazon may share user-deployment information with the AWS Partner that collaborated with AWS on the Quick Start.
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Cost and licenses
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You are responsible for the cost of the AWS services used while running this Quick Start reference deployment. There is no additional cost for using the Quick Start.
The AWS CloudFormation template for this Quick Start includes configuration parameters that you can customize. Some of these settings, such as instance type, affect the cost of deployment. For cost estimates, see the pricing pages for each AWS service you use. Prices are subject to change.
Calico binaries are provided for free under the Apache 2.0 license. To enable additional enterprise features, see Calico Enterprise Features.
