All the AWS App Mesh components will be live in the appmesh-system namespace in our EKS cluster. We will be managing all namespaces via GitOps. This includes the actual creation of the namespace and also the resources contained with it.
Ensure you have cloned your repository into your Cloud9 environment.
# Make sure you are in your environment directory
cd ~/environment
# Clone your repo
git clone git@github.com:yourname/my-eks-config.git
# Change into the repos directory
cd my-eks-config
Create a folder in your repo called namespaces and then create a file within that folder called appmesh-system.yaml.
Paste the contents of the following into the new file:
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
labels:
name: appmesh-system
name: appmesh-system
Your repository structure should be:
.
├── namespaces
│ └── appmesh-system.yaml
└── README.md
Add and then commit the appmesh-system.yaml file and push the the changes to your GitHub repo.
Flux will now see that the desired state has changed in Git and will apply the namespace to our cluster. This will take up to 1 minute to apply.
Check that that the namespace has been created by running the following command:
kubectl get ns
You should see the appmesh-system namespace listed. For example:
NAME STATUS AGE
appmesh-system Active 26s
default Active 76m
flux Active 2m18s
kube-node-lease Active 76m
kube-public Active 76m
kube-system Active 76m
If you don’t see it listed, give it a few minutes longer and try again.