Set up DPDK on AWS EKS

1. Create an AWS account if you don’t already have one.
2. Create an EKS cluster using the custom AMI. For more information, see, creating an amazon EKS cluster.
3. Modify VPC and node settings. For more information see, AWS EKS documentation.
4. (Multus)Add multiple ENIs to the EKS node, and load KNI and UIO drivers.

   • Use the following tag to add multiple ENIs to the EKS node.

     'Key': 'node.k8s.amazonaws.com/no_manage',
     'Value': 'true'

     When the tag is detected, the interface can then be used by Multus CNI. For more information, see AWS documentation.
   • Run the following commands in the AWS CLI.

     aws ec2 create-network-interface --subnet-id <> --description "test" --groups <> --region=us-west-1 --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=network-interface,Tags=[{Key='node.k8s.amazonaws.com/no_manage',Value='true'}]'
     
     aws ec2 attach-network-interface     --network-interface-id  <>  --instance-id <> --device-index 2

   • (If you’re not using custom AMI) Enable hugepages on the worker nodes.

     echo 1024 > /sys/devices/system/node/node0/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
     mkdir -p /mnt/huge
     mount -t hugetlbfs nodev /mnt/huge
     service kubelet restart