Eksctl not working EKS Kubernetes

Kubernetes
#1

Hi,
How to make EKSCTL work with the playground? I am trying to create a cluster with two t2.medium node group, and it terminates with the below error.

2024-04-06 12:55:18 [ℹ]  waiting for CloudFormation stack "eksctl-dev-cluster-nodegroup-ng-1"
2024-04-06 12:55:48 [ℹ]  waiting for CloudFormation stack "eksctl-dev-cluster-nodegroup-ng-1"
2024-04-06 12:55:48 [!]  1 error(s) occurred and cluster hasn't been created properly, you may wish to check CloudFormation console
2024-04-06 12:55:48 [ℹ]  to cleanup resources, run 'eksctl delete cluster --region=ap-southeast-1 --name=dev-cluster'
2024-04-06 12:55:48 [✖]  waiter state transitioned to Failure

This is what I see on cloud formation

Resource handler returned message: "User: arn:aws:iam::887820097278:user/kk_labs_user_269989 is not authorized to perform: eks:CreateNodegroup on resource: arn:aws:eks:ap-southeast-1:887820097278:cluster/dev-cluster (Service: Eks, Status Code: 403, Request ID: f6e1024a-9087-4a6b-9ac0-0b78295412b1)"
#2

The key problem is probably here:

You should change the region to either us-east-1 or us-west-2. We’ve updated the supported regions and don’t support ap-southeast-1 any more.

#3

Also eksctl doesn’t work with playground anyway as it uses APIs that are not enabled for playground.

We have 2 alternative methods for deploying EKS which can be found here

Not able to create EKS cluster using eksctl