The team at Tigera offers a free access to Calico Enterprise Edition for all EKSWorkshop users. Follow the steps below to get your free trial to access Calico Enterprise and run it directly on your EKS cluster.
Go to the Calico Enterprise trial registration website using this link .
Fill out your contact details along with your work email address to ensure you receive your trial environment details promptly.
Select Amazon EKS as your Kubernetes distro.
For the Promo Code, please use PAR-AWS-EKS-WORKSHOP. It is critical for you to use this code as it is used to automatically approve trial requests for EKS Workshop Users.
Review and accept the terms of service and click the START YOUR TRIAL button.
Somebody from the Tigera team will provision your environment and send you an email with the details you need. This is currently a manual process and can take up to half an hour during business hours M-F 9 am - 5 pm PT. Requests received during non-business hours will be provisioned on the next business day.
Once you receive the email titled “Your Calico Enterprise Trial Credentials” from cet@tigera.io ( make sure it’s not going to your spam folder). You will be supplied with a single command to run against your existing EKS cluster. This command will automatically install the required Calico Enterprise components on your EKS cluster so you will be able to use a dedicated management portal to manage this cluster.
You may follow the instructions provided in the email to register your EKS cluster and go through the advanced labs!
🐯 → curl -s https://tigera-installer.storage.googleapis.com/XXXXXXXX--management_install.sh | bash
[INFO] Checking for installed CNI Plugin
[INFO] Deploying CRDs and Tigera Operator
[INFO] Creating Tigera Pull Secret
[INFO] Tigera Operator is Available
[INFO] Adding Installation CR for Enterprise install
[WAIT] Tigera calico is Progressing
[INFO] Tigera Calico is Available
[INFO] Deploying Tigera Prometheus Operator
[INFO] Deploying CRs for Managed Cluster
[WAIT] Tigera apiserver is Progressing
[INFO] Tigera Apiserver is Available
[INFO] Generate New Cluster Registration Manifest
[INFO] Creating connection
[INFO] All Tigera Components are Available
[INFO] Securing Install
Your Connected Cluster Name is
XXXXXXXX-us-west-2-eks-amazonaws-com
Your install was completed successfully. Below are your Calico Enterprise Credentials.
PORTAL URL: https://XXXXX-management.try.tigera.io
ACCESS TOKEN: XXXX
KIBANA USERNAME: elastic
KIBANA PASSWORD: XXXXXXXX
Lab Environment Access
Endpoint: https://XXXXXXX.try.tigera.io:31500
User: XXXXXXX
Pass: XXXXXXX