Introduction to monitoring AWS EKS with Datadog and Terraform Cloud

Related tutorials and repositories

• Provision an EKS Cluster (AWS)
• Automate Monitoring with the Terraform Datadog Provider
• DataDog/ecommerce-workshop

Prerequisites

To run this workshop code you will need the following:

1. A datadog learning center account Free Account
2. An AWS account to install a Kubernetes cluster (EKS) - Provided within the Datadog learning center lab.
3. A Datadog account - Provided within the Datadog learning center lab.
4. A Terraform Cloud account
5. A github account
6. Fork this repository

Content

Each folder contains does something different.

• aws-eks/: Terraform configuration to define a three node cluster in EKS.

• storedog-app/: Terraform configuration to do the following:

  • Deploy an eCommerce application called Storedog with a Load Balancer
  • Deploy Datadog Agent on EKS cluster via helm
  • Deploy Datadog AWS Intergration & associated IAM policies.

• datadog-resources/: Terraform configuration to:

  • Create dashboards in Datadog
  • Create synthetic tests in Datadog
  • Create monitors in Datadog

Setup

Proceed to the Datadog learning center and look for our lab Introduction to monitoring AWS with Datadog & Terraform Cloud All steps for the lab are contained there.