Deploy test workload

We’ve created a simple test application for you to verify your cluster is working properly. You can deploy it with the following command:

kubectl apply -f "https://anywhere.eks.amazonaws.com/manifests/hello-eks-a.yaml" 

To see the new pod running in your cluster, type:

kubectl get pods -l app=hello-eks-a 

Example output:

NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE hello-eks-a-745bfcd586-6zx6b 1/1 Running 0 22m 

To check the logs of the container to make sure it started successfully, type:

kubectl logs -l app=hello-eks-a 

There is also a default web page being served from the container. You can forward the deployment port to your local machine with

kubectl port-forward deploy/hello-eks-a 8000:80 

Now you should be able to open your browser or use curl to http://localhost:8000 to view the page example application.

curl localhost:8000 

Example output:

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If you would like to expose your applications with an external load balancer or an ingress controller, you can follow the steps in Adding an external load balancer .