AWS-EKS: Running Containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

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Course Description

In this course, you will learn how to use Amazon EKS to manage and orchestrate containers with Kubernetes. With Amazon EKS you can run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install, operate, and maintain your own Kubernetes control plane. You will manage container images using Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) and learn how to automate application deployment. You will deploy applications using continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) tools. You will learn how to monitor and scale your environment by using metrics, logging, tracing, and horizontal and vertical scaling. You will also manage storage for your containerized applications, configure AWS networking services to support the cluster, and learn how to secure your Amazon EKS environment.

Outline

Day 1

Module 1: Kubernetes Fundamentals

Benefits of containers
Container orchestration
Kubernetes internals
Pod scheduling
Kubernetes objects

Module 2: Amazon EKS Fundamentals

Introduction to Amazon EKS
Amazon EKS control plane
Amazon EKS data plane
Fundamentals of Amazon EKS security
Two APIs: Kubernetes and Amazon EKS
Hands-On Lab: Deploying Kubernetes Pods

Module 3: Building and maintaining an Amazon EKS cluster

Creating an Amazon EKS cluster
Deploying nodes
Planning for an upgrade
Upgrading your Kubernetes version

Module 4: Deploying Applications to Your Amazon EKS Cluster

Application deployment methods
Working with Amazon ECR
Deploying applications with Helm
Hands-On Lab: Deploying Applications

Day 2

Module 5: Managing Applications at Scale in Amazon EKS

Scale to meet demand in Amazon EKS
Continuous deployment in Amazon EKS
GitOps and Amazon EKS
Hands-On Lab: Continuous Deployment and GitOps

Module 6: Managing Networking in Amazon EKS

Review: Networking in AWS
Communicating in Amazon EKS
Improving Pod-level security
Load balancing with Services

Module 7: Configuring Observability in Amazon EKS

Configuring observability in an Amazon EKS cluster
Collecting metrics
Managing logs
Application tracing in Amazon EKS
Hands-On Lab: Monitoring Amazon EKS

Day 3

Module 8: Managing Storage in Amazon EKS

Design patterns for storage
Persistent storage in Kubernetes
Persistent storage with AWS storage services
Managing secrets
Hands-On Lab: Persistent Storage in Amazon EKS

Module 9: Managing Security in Amazon EKS

Cloud security fundamentals
Authentication and authorization
Managing IAM and RBAC
Managing Pod permissions using RBAC service accounts
Hands-On Lab: Capstone Exercise

Audience

This course is intended for people who provide container orchestration management in the AWS Cloud,
including:

Cloud architects
DevOps engineers
Systems administrators

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

Completed Introduction to Containers
Completed Amazon EKS Primer
Completed AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (or have equivalent real-world experience)
Basic Linux administration experience
Basic network administration experience

What You Will Learn

In this course, you will learn to:

Describe the main components of Kubernetes, including the key objects and the core components of the Kubernetes API.
Describe how Amazon EKS manages the Kubernetes control plane and parts of the data plane.
Build and maintain an Amazon EKS cluster.
Deploy applications to an Amazon EKS cluster.
Manage applications running in enterprise-scale Amazon EKS clusters.
Configure efficient, secure communication both within the cluster and with outside services.
Configure observability in an Amazon EKS cluster.
Provision storage for applications running on Amazon EKS.
Secure an Amazon EKS cluster.