Learn Amazon EKS: A Managed Kubernetes Service on AWS

Learn how to effectively run Kubernetes on AWS using Amazon EKS - Basics to an in-depth review of advanced features

Created by: Dhiman Halder
Solutions Architect | 5x AWS Certified | CKA | CKAD | CKS

What Will I Learn?

• Provision an Amazon EKS cluster using CloudFormation
• Refresher course on Pod, Service and Deployment
• Autoscale your cluster using the Cluster Autoscaler
• Autoscale your application using Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
• Setup Pod level fine-grained IAM permissions using Kube2Iam
• Expose services using NGINX Ingress Controller and Amazon Elastic Load Balancer
• Use Amazon EBS for persistent storage in stateful applications - Wordpress with MySQL backend
• Use Amazon EFS for persistent storage in stateful applications
• Setup a log aggregation system using Amazon Elasticsearch, Fluentd and Kibana
• Secure your cluster using Network policies
• Integrate Amazon EKS with other services in the AWS eco-system like the IAM, Elastic Load Balancer, Route53, Amazon EBS, Amazon EFS, CloudWatch Logs and Elasticsearch
• Update: 07/05/20 - Create an end-to-end CI/CD Pipeline using AWS CodePipeline & AWS CodeBuild
• Update: 08/09/20 - Create and manage EKS clusters using eksctl CLI tool
• Update: 01/03/21 - Learn how to use Helm - a package manager for Kubernetes

Requirements

• Basic understanding of Kubernetes and Docker containers
• Basic understanding of Amazon Web Services – Some experience with VPC, EC2, EBS, ELB, Security Group and Route53 is necessary
• Preliminary knowledge of Linux
• A Windows, Mac or Linux Computer with a modern Browser, NodeJS, a Code Editor and Docker Installed
• (Optional) Domain name to follow along in one of the hands-on lesson

Target audience

• Architects, Tech Leads, DevOps Professional, Developers willing to learn how to envisage and build complete end-to-end solutions with Amazon EKS and host of other allied AWS services