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An EKS-D Kubernetes distribution for desktop

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---
description: An easy way to run EKS clusters on your desktop
---

# The EKZ Project

`ekz` is an opinionated Kubernetes distribution built using binaries from [the AWS EKS Distro](https://distro.eks.amazonaws.com/) \(EKS-D\). It aims to be the easiest way to run EKS clusters on desktops (Linux, macOS and Windows).

What is EKS-D?

> _EKS-D provides the same software that has enabled tens of thousands of Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EKS._

`ekz` aims at solving the EKS compatibility problems for developers as much as possible by implanting EKS-D binaries to KinD and the k0s projects, so that we can easily spin EKS-compatible clusters up to test our Kubernetes applications.

## Architecture

The architecture of EKZ has been designed to support EKS-D in multiple implementations, called providers. Currently, we ship the [k0s](https://github.com/k0sproject/k0s)-based \(EKZ provider\), and [KinD](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/)-based \(KinD provider\) implementations. A provider can be specified when creating a cluster, or via the `EKZ_PROVIDER` variable.

Here's EKS-D versions supported by EKZ.

| Kubernetes | EKS-D Release | EKZ provider  | KinD provider|
|------------|:-------------:| :-----------: | :----------: |
| 1-18       | 7             | ✓             | ✓            |
| 1-19       | 6             | ✓             | ✓            |
| 1-20       | 3             | ✓             | ✓            |
| 1-21       | 1             | ✓             | ✓            |

## Getting Started

`ekz` creates a cluster for you inside a Docker container on your laptop. You can start a cluster with or without using the CLI.

### CLI Installation

You could install the CLI with one the following options.

#### Homebrew \(macOS & Linux\)

##### Install:
```bash
brew install ekz-io/tap/ekz
```
##### Upgrade:
```bash
brew upgrade ekz-io/tap/ekz
```

#### CURL One-liner \(macOS & Linux\)

```bash
curl -sSL https://bit.ly/install-ekz | bash
```

#### Wget One-liner \(macOS & Linux\)

```bash
wget -qO- https://bit.ly/install-ekz | bash
```

#### Scoop \(Windows\)

```bash
scoop bucket add ekz-io https://github.com/ekz-io/scoop-ekz.git
scoop install ekz-io/ekz
```

#### Chocolatey \(Windows\)

```bash
choco install -y ekz
```

Then you can start your first EKS-D cluster using the following command:

```bash
ekz create cluster
```

You can also use the KinD provider, so that your EKS-D clusters will be KinD-compatible. To use the KinD provider, you can use either flag `--provider=kind` or `export EKZ_PROVIDER=kind`.

Here' the example of using the `--provider=kind` flag:

```bash
ekz create cluster --provider=kind
```

In case you'd like to use KinD as the default provider, it's better to set the EKZ\_PROVIDER environment variable:

```bash
export EKZ_PROVIDER=kind
ekz create cluster
```

Please wait for a couple of minutes and an EKS-D cluster will be ready on your laptop.

```bash
❯ kubectl get nodes
NAME         STATUS   ROLES    AGE    VERSION
controller   Ready    <none>   87s    v1.21.2-eks-1-21-1
```

### Without CLI

To use EKZ without using the CLI, please refer to this [document](without_cli.md).

## Features

### EKZ provider

1. EKS-D binaries
2. Packaged with the `k0s` skeleton 
3. Base image: Amazon Linux 2 
4. Enable network policy by default via Kube-Router (Calico is optional)
5. Bundled with a local storage class, and a load balancer

### KinD provider

1. EKS-D binaries
2. Using KinD v0.11 as the skeleton
3. Packaged using KinD v1.18, v1.19, v1.20, v1.21 node images
4. Enable network policy by default via the Calico CNI
5. Bundled with a local storage class (from KinD), and a load balancer

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