kubernetes/docs/getting-started-guides/aws.md

Getting started on AWS

Prerequisites

1. You need an AWS account. Visit http://aws.amazon.com to get started
2. Install and configure AWS Command Line Interface

Cluster turnup

Option 1: Install a binary release

1. Download the binary release
2. Unpack the archive and cd kubernetes

Option 2: Install from source

1. git clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes.git
2. cd kubernetes; make release

Turn up the cluster

export KUBERNETES_PROVIDER=aws
cluster/kube-up.sh

The script above relies on AWS S3 to deploy the software to instances running in EC2.

Running examples

Take a look at next steps

Tearing down the cluster

cd kubernetes
cluster/kube-down.sh

Cloud Formation

There is a contributed example from CoreOS using Cloud Formation.