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In this tutorial we'll use [eksctl][eksctl], a simple command line utility for creating and managing Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EKS. AWS requires creating many resources such as IAM roles, security groups and networks, by using `eksctl` all of this is simplified.

> We're not going to use a Fargate cluster. Do note that if you want to use Fargate daemonset are not allowed, the only way to ship logs with EKS Fargate is to run a fluentd or fluentbit or Promtail as a sidecar and tee your logs into a file. For more information on how to do so, you can read this [blog post][blog ship log with fargate].
{{< admonition type="note" >}}
We're not going to use a Fargate cluster. Do note that if you want to use Fargate daemonset are not allowed, the only way to ship logs with EKS Fargate is to run a fluentd or fluentbit or Promtail as a sidecar and tee your logs into a file. For more information on how to do so, you can read this [blog post][blog ship log with fargate].
{{< /admonition >}}

```bash
eksctl create cluster --name loki-promtail --managed
```

This usually takes about 15 minutes. When this is finished you should have `kubectl context` configured to communicate with your newly created cluster. To verify, run the following command:
This usually takes about 15 minutes. When this is finished you should have `kubectl context` configured to communicate with your newly created cluster. To verify, run the following command:

```bash
kubectl version
```

You should see output similar to the following:

```bash
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Let's add the Loki repository and list all available charts. To add the repo, run the following command:

```bash
helm repo add loki https://grafana.github.io/loki/charts
helm repo add grafana https://grafana.github.io/helm-charts
helm upgrade -i promtail grafana/promtail
```

You should see the following message.

```bash
"loki" has been added to your repositories
```

To list the available charts, run the following command:

```bash
helm search repo
```

You should see output similar to the following:

```bash
NAME CHART VERSION APP VERSION DESCRIPTION
loki/fluent-bit 0.3.0 v1.6.0 Uses fluent-bit Loki go plugin for gathering lo...
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```

You should see the following message.

```bash
namespace/monitoring created
```

To add Promtail, run the following command:

```bash
helm install promtail --namespace monitoring loki/promtail -f values.yaml
```

You should see output similar to the following:

```bash
NAME: promtail
LAST DEPLOYED: Fri Jul 10 14:41:37 2020
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```

You should see output similar to the following:

```bash
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
promtail-87t62 1/1 Running 0 35s
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```bash
kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grafana/loki/main/docs/sources/send-data/promtail/cloud/eks/eventrouter.yaml
```

You should see output similar to the following:

```bash
serviceaccount/eventrouter created
clusterrole.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/eventrouter created
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[default value file]: https://github.com/grafana/helm-charts/blob/main/charts/promtail/values.yaml
[grafana logs namespace]: namespace-grafana.png
[relabel_configs]:https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#relabel_config
[syslog]: ../../../installation/helm#run-promtail-with-syslog-support
[kubelet]: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/command-line-tools-reference/kubelet/#:~:text=The%20kubelet%20works%20in%20terms,PodSpecs%20are%20running%20and%20healthy.
[blog events]: https://grafana.com/blog/2019/08/21/how-grafana-labs-effectively-pairs-loki-and-kubernetes-events/
[labels post]: https://grafana.com/blog/2020/04/21/how-labels-in-loki-can-make-log-queries-faster-and-easier/
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