Running Containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

Amazon EKS makes it easy for you to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install, operate, and maintain your own Kubernetes control plane. In this three-day course, you'll learn container management and orchestration for Kubernetes using Amazon EKS. You'll build an Amazon EKS cluster, configure the environment, deploy the cluster, and add applications to your cluster. Also discover how to manage container images using Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) and learn how to automate application deployment. In addition, you'll deploy applications using CI/CD tools. You'll review how to monitor and scale your environment by using metrics, logging, tracing, and horizontal/vertical scaling. Learn efficiency, cost, and resiliency by designing and managing a large container environment. Lastly, explore configuring AWS networking services to support the cluster and learn how to secure your Amazon EKS environment.

Course Contents

Module 0: Course Introduction
Module 1: Kubernetes Fundamentals
Module 2: Amazon EKS Fundamentals
Module 3: Building an Amazon EKS Cluster
Module 4: Deploying Applications to Your Amazon EKS Cluster
Module 5: Configuring Observability in Amazon EKS
Module 6: Balancing Efficiency, Resilience, and Cost Optimization in Amazon EKS
Module 7: Managing Networking in Amazon EKS
Module 8: Managing Authentication and Authorization in Amazon EKS
Module 9: Implementing Secure Workflows
Module 10: Managing Upgrades in Amazon EKS

You have access to the labs for another 14 days after the course. This way you can repeat exercises or deepen them individually.

You will receive the original course documentation by Amazon Web Services in English language as an e-book.

Target Group

Anyone who will provide container orchestration management in the AWS Cloud, including DevOps engineers and systems administrators

Knowledge Prerequisites

Completed Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Primer
Basic Linux administration experience
Basic network administration experience
Basic knowledge of containers and microservices

Module 0: Course Introduction

Course preparation activities and agenda

Module 1: Kubernetes Fundamentals

Container orchestration

Kubernetes objects

Kubernetes internals

Module 2: Amazon EKS Fundamentals

Introduction to Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS control plane

Amazon EKS data plane

Fundamentals of Amazon EKS security

Amazon EKS API

Module 3: Building an Amazon EKS Cluster

Configuring your environment

Creating an Amazon EKS cluster

Demo: Deploying a cluster

Deploying worker nodes

Demo: Completing a cluster configuration

Preparing for Lab 1: Building an Amazon EKS Cluster

Module 4: Deploying Applications to Your Amazon EKS Cluster

Configuring Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)

Demo: Configuring Amazon ECR

Deploying applications with Helm

Demo: Deploying applications with Helm

Continuous deployment in Amazon EKS

GitOps and Amazon EKS

Preparing for Lab 2: Deploying Applications

Module 5: Configuring Observability in Amazon EKS

Configuring observability in an Amazon EKS cluster

Collecting metrics

Using metrics for automatic scaling

Managing logs

Application tracing in Amazon EKS

Gaining and applying insight from observability

Preparing for Lab 3: Monitoring Amazon EKS

Module 6: Balancing Efficiency, Resilience, and Cost Optimization in Amazon EKS

The high level overview

Designing for resilience

Designing for cost optimization

Designing for efficiency

Module 7: Managing Networking in Amazon EKS

Review: Networking in AWS

Communicating in Amazon EKS

Managing your IP space

Deploying a service mesh

Preparing for Lab 4: Exploring Amazon EKS Communication

Module 8: Managing Authentication and Authorization in Amazon EKS

Understanding the AWS shared responsibility model

Authentication and authorization

Managing IAM and RBAC

Demo: Customizing RBAC roles

Managing pod permissions using RBAC service accounts

Module 9: Implementing Secure Workflows

Securing cluster endpoint access

Improving the security of your workflows

Improving host and network security

Managing secrets

Preparing for Lab 5: Securing Amazon EKS

Module 10: Managing Upgrades in Amazon EKS

Planning for an upgrade

Upgrading your Kubernetes version

Amazon EKS platform versions

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