Address feedback on EKS docs

2026-05-13 08:33:35 +00:00 · 2019-06-20 17:14:00 -07:00
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@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ You can use Rancher to create a cluster hosted in Alibaba Cloud Kubernetes (ACK)

 ## Prerequisites

+>**Note**
+>Deploying to ACK will incur charges.
+
 1. In Aliyun, activate the following services in their respective consoles.

    - [Container Service](https://cs.console.aliyun.com)
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ You can use Rancher to create a cluster hosted in Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Ser

 ## Prerequisites in the Microsoft Azure Portal 

+>**Note**
+>Deploying to AKS will incur charges.
+
 Obtain the following information from the [Microsoft Azure Portal](https://portal.azure.com) by completing how to [Create Service Principal for Azure AD](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-stack/azure-stack-create-service-principals#create-service-principal-for-azure-ad).

 - Your Subscription ID.
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ You can use Rancher to create a cluster hosted in Huawei Cloud Container Engine

 ## Prerequisites in Huawei

+>**Note**
+>Deploying to CCE will incur charges.
+
 1. Find your project ID in Huawei CCE portal. See the CCE documentation on how to [manage your projects](https://support.huaweicloud.com/en-us/usermanual-iam/en-us_topic_0066738518.html).

 2. Create an [Access Key ID and Secret Access Key](https://support.huaweicloud.com/en-us/usermanual-iam/en-us_topic_0079477318.html).
@@ -11,8 +11,10 @@ Amazon EKS provides a managed control plane for your Kubernetes cluster. Amazon

 ## Prerequisites in Amazon Web Services

-To set up a cluster on EKS, you will need to set up an Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud). You will also need to make sure that the account you will be using to create the EKS cluster has the appropriate permissions. For details, refer to the official guide on [Amazon EKS Prerequisites](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started-console.html#eks-prereqs).
+>**Note**
+>Deploying to Amazon AWS will incur charges. For more information, refer to the [EKS pricing page](https://aws.amazon.com/eks/pricing/).

+To set up a cluster on EKS, you will need to set up an Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud). You will also need to make sure that the account you will be using to create the EKS cluster has the appropriate permissions. For details, refer to the official guide on [Amazon EKS Prerequisites](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started-console.html#eks-prereqs).

 ### Amazon VPC

@@ -120,12 +122,12 @@ If you chose this option, you must also choose a **VPC & Subnet** that allow you
    - [Security Groups for Your VPC](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_SecurityGroups.html)
    - [Create a Security Group](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/getting-started-ipv4.html#getting-started-create-security-group)

-1. <a id="select-instance-options"></a>Click **Select Instance Options**, and then edit the node options available.
+1. <a id="select-instance-options"></a>Click **Select Instance Options**, and then edit the node options available. Instance type and size of your worker nodes affects how many IP addresses each worker node will have available. See this [documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-eni.html#AvailableIpPerENI) for more information.

    Option | Description
    -------|------------
    Instance Type | Choose the [hardware specs](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/) for the instance you're provisioning.
-    Custom AMI Override | If you want to use a custom [Amazon Machine Image](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AMIs.html#creating-an-ami) (AMI), specify it here.
+    Custom AMI Override | If you want to use a custom [Amazon Machine Image](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AMIs.html#creating-an-ami) (AMI), specify it here. By default, Rancher will use the [EKS-optimized AMI](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/eks-optimized-ami.html) for the EKS version that you chose.
    Minimum ASG Size | The minimum number of instances that your cluster will scale to during low traffic, as controlled by [Amazon Auto Scaling](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/what-is-amazon-ec2-auto-scaling.html).
    Maximum ASG Size | The maximum number of instances that your cluster will scale to during high traffic, as controlled by [Amazon Auto Scaling](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/what-is-amazon-ec2-auto-scaling.html).
    User Data | Custom commands can to be passed to perform automated configuration tasks **WARNING: Modifying this may cause your nodes to be unable to join the cluster.** _Note: Available as of v2.2.0_
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ aliases:

 ## Prerequisites in Google Cloud Platform

+>**Note**
+>Deploying to GKE will incur charges.
+
 Create a service account using [Google Cloud Platform](https://console.cloud.google.com/projectselector/iam-admin/serviceaccounts). GKE uses this account to operate your cluster. Creating this account also generates a private key used for authentication.

 The service account requires the following roles:
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ You can use Rancher to create a cluster hosted in Tencent Kubernetes Engine (TKE

 ## Prerequisites in Tencent

+>**Note**
+>Deploying to TKE will incur charges.
+
 1. Make sure that the account you will be using to create the TKE cluster has the appropriate permissions by referring to the  [Cloud Access Management](https://intl.cloud.tencent.com/document/product/598/10600) documentation for details.

 2. Create a [Cloud API Secret ID and Secret Key](https://console.cloud.tencent.com/capi).
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ The following steps quickly deploy a Rancher Server with a single node cluster a

 ## Prerequisites

+>**Note**
+>Deploying to Vagrant will incur charges.
+
 - [Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com): Vagrant is required as this is used to provision the machine based on the Vagrantfile.
 - [Virtualbox](https://www.virtualbox.org): The virtual machines that Vagrant provisions need to be provisioned to VirtualBox.
 - At least 4GB of free RAM.