I have a kubernetes cluster with ec2 nodes, how can I connect to pods in this cluster externally from my local machine or another ec2 instance not in the cluster? I have the VPC ID and the cluster namespace.
AWS announced EKS ( Elastic Kubernetes Service ) as new service few days ago. However it is still in preview the time that I am writing this answer.
Anyway, you can use kops which is built for this purpose ; to make marriage between k8s and AWS .
You will do something like the following:
kops create cluster --name=k8s.example.com \
--state=s3://cluster-state \
--zones=eu-west-1a \
--node-count=2 \
--node-size=t2.micro \
--master-size=t2.micro \
--dns-zone=k8s.example.com