Requirements

• Cluster on EKS
• eksctl installed
• kubectl configured

Instalation

1. Create your IAM OIDC Identity Provider for your cluster

eksctl utils associate-iam-oidc-provider --cluster my-eks --approve

2. Create the service account for cloudwatch logs

eksctl create iamserviceaccount --name fluentd --namespace kube-system --cluster my-eks --attach-policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudWatchAgentServerPolicy --approve --override-existing-serviceaccounts

3. Create a Cluster Role, and Cluster RoleBinding

kubectl apply -f 00_clusterRole_roleBinding.yml

4. Create Kubernetes ConfigMap object for the Fluentd configuration

kubectl apply -f 01_fluentd_configMap.yml

5. Script to run the Fluentd container as a DaemonSet object.

You need to chance the value of the environment variables AWS_REGION and AWS_EKS_CLUSTER_NAME

kubectl apply -f 02_fleuntd_daemonset.yml

6. See if the DaemonSet is running or not.

kubectl get ds -n kube-system

7. Deploy samle pods to push logs.
8. Go to cloudwatch > Logs > Log group