How to install metrics server in AWS EKS?

The Kubernetes Metrics Server (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/metrics-server.html) is not deployed by default in AWS EKS clusters. However, we will need it for our Cluster Autoscaler, Horizontal Pod Autoscaler, Kubernetes Dashboard, etc.

Deploy the Metrics Server

Deploying is as simple as executing the command below:

kubectl apply -f https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/metrics-server/releases/latest/download/components.yaml

Verify the Deployment

kubectl get deployment metrics-server -n kube-system