This pattern provides code samples and steps to install the AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) and Amazon CloudWatch agent on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) worker nodes in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud during Amazon EKS cluster creation. You can install the SSM Agent and CloudWatch agent by using the preBootstrapCommands property from the eksctl config file schema (Weaveworks documentation). Then, you can use the SSM Agent to connect to your worker nodes without using an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) key pair. Additionally, you can use the CloudWatch agent to monitor memory and disk utilization on your Amazon EKS worker nodes.
