The following steps describe the validation of the cluster deployment:
- Run the following command to verify that your cluster is working properly:
kubectl apply -f “https://anywhere.eks.amazonaws.com/manifests/hello-eks-a.yaml”
- Run the following command to see the new pod running in your cluster:
kubectl get pods -l app=hello-eks-a
- There is a default web page that is served from the container. Run the following command to forward the deployment port to your local machine:
kubectl port-forward deploy/hello-eks-a 8000:80
- Run the following command to open a browser on your admin system or use curl localhost:8000 to view the page example application, as shown in the following figure:
curl localhost:8000

Figure 3. Hello EKS-Anywhere pod