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wait

Description

Wait until a particular condition is satisfied. Each subcommand polls an API until the listed requirement is met.

Available Commands

• addon-active
• addon-deleted
• cluster-active
• cluster-deleted
• fargate-profile-active
• fargate-profile-deleted
• nodegroup-active
• nodegroup-deleted

Examples

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal’s quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

To wait for a cluster to become active

This example command waits for a cluster named example to become active.

Command:

aws eks wait cluster-active --name example

To wait for a cluster to be deleted

This example command waits for a cluster named example to be deleted.

Command:

aws eks wait cluster-deleted --name example