Running Containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

3 Days

18 CPD hours

This course is intended for:
Those who will provide container orchestration management in the AWS Cloud including:
DevOps engineers
Systems administrators

In this course, you will learn to:
Review and examine containers, Kubernetes and Amazon EKS fundamentals and the impact of containers on workflows.
Build an Amazon EKS cluster by selecting the correct compute resources to support worker nodes.
Secure your environment with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) authentication by creating an Amazon EKS service role for your cluster
Deploy an application on the cluster. Publish container images to ECR and secure access via IAM policy.
Automate and deploy applications, examine automation tools and pipelines. Create a GitOps pipeline using WeaveFlux.
Collect monitoring data through metrics, logs, tracing with AWS X-Ray and identify metrics for performance tuning. Review scenarios where bottlenecks require the best scaling approach using horizontal or vertical scaling.
Assess the tradeoffs between efficiency, resiliency, and cost and impact for tuning one over the other. Describe and outline a holistic, iterative approach to optimizing your environment. Design for cost, efficiency, and resiliency.
Configure the AWS networking services to support the cluster. Describe how EKS/Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) functions and simplifies inter-node communications. Describe the function of VPC Container Network Interface (CNI). Review the benefits of a service mesh.
Upgrade your Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and third party tools

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 course, you will learn container management and orchestration for Kubernetes using Amazon EKS.
You will build an Amazon EKS cluster, configure the environment, deploy the cluster, and then add applications to your cluster. You will manage container images using Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) and learn how to automate application deployment. You will deploy applications using CI/CD tools. You will learn how to monitor and scale your environment by using metrics, logging, tracing, and horizontal/vertical scaling. You will learn how to design and manage a large container environment by designing for efficiency, cost, and resiliency. You will configure AWS networking services to support the cluster and learn how to secure your Amazon EKS environment.

Module 0: Course Introduction

• Course preparation activities and agenda

Module 1: Container Fundamentals

• Best practices for building applications
  Container fundamentals
  Components of a container

Module 2: Kubernetes Fundamentals

• Container orchestration
  Kubernetes objects
  Kubernetes internals
  Preparing for Lab 1: Deploying Kubernetes Pods

Module 3: Amazon EKS Fundamentals

• Introduction to Amazon EKS
  Amazon EKS control plane
  Amazon EKS data plane
  Fundamentals of Amazon EKS security
  Amazon EKS API

Module 4: Building an Amazon EKS Cluster

• Configuring your environment
  Creating an Amazon EKS cluster
  Demo: Configuring and deploying clusters in the AWS Management Console
  Working with eksctl
  Preparing for Lab 2: Building an Amazon EKS Cluster

Module 5: 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 3: Deploying App

Module 6: 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 4: Monitoring Amazon EKS

Module 7: Balancing Efficiency, Resilience, and Cost Optimization in Amazon EKS

• The high level overview
  Designing for resilience
  Designing for cost optimization
  Designing for efficiency

Module 8: Managing Networking in Amazon EKS

• Review: Networking in AWS
  Communicating in Amazon EKS
  Managing your IP space
  Deploying a service mesh
  Preparing for Lab 5: Exploring Amazon EKS Communication

Module 9: 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 10: Implementing Secure Workflows

• Securing cluster endpoint access
  Improving the security of your workflows
  Improving host and network security
  Managing secrets
  Preparing for Lab 6: Securing Amazon EKS

Module 11: Managing Upgrades in Amazon EKS

• Planning for an upgrade
  Upgrading your Kubernetes version
  Amazon EKS platform versions

Additional course details:

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