@ -27,18 +27,20 @@ For the sake of simplicity we'll use a [GrafanaCloud][GrafanaCloud] Loki and Gra
In this tutorial we'll use [eksctl][eksctl], a simple command line utility for creating and managing Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EKS. AWS requires creating many resources such as IAM roles, security groups and networks, by using `eksctl` all of this is simplified.
> We're not going to use a Fargate cluster. Do note that if you want to use Fargate daemonset are not allowed, the only way to ship logs with EKS Fargate is to run a fluentd or fluentbit or Promtail as a sidecar and tee your logs into a file. For more information on how to do so, you can read this [blog post][blog ship log with fargate].
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We're not going to use a Fargate cluster. Do note that if you want to use Fargate daemonset are not allowed, the only way to ship logs with EKS Fargate is to run a fluentd or fluentbit or Promtail as a sidecar and tee your logs into a file. For more information on how to do so, you can read this [blog post][blog ship log with fargate].
This usually takes about 15 minutes. When this is finished you should have `kubectl context` configured to communicate with your newly created cluster. To verify, run the following command:
This usually takes about 15 minutes. When this is finished you should have `kubectl context` configured to communicate with your newly created cluster. To verify, run the following command:
```bash
kubectl version
```
You should see output similar to the following:
```bash
@ -55,18 +57,24 @@ What's nice about Promtail is that it uses the same [service discovery as Promet
Let's add the Loki repository and list all available charts. To add the repo, run the following command: