Running Containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Course Overview
The "Running Containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Course Overview" equips professionals with the skills to deploy and manage containerized applications using EKS. This course is essential for DevOps engineers, developers, and system administrators seeking to enhance their cloud-native application management capabilities, streamline workflows, and optimize resource utilization in scalable environments.
Course outline & what you'll learn
Overview of containers and their benefits
- Introduction to Kubernetes architecture and components
- Differences between container orchestration and traditional deployment
- Setting up an AWS account
Overview of Amazon EKS architecture
- Provisioning an EKS cluster using the AWS Management Console
- Configuring kubectl for EKS
- Creating a sample application
- Deploying applications using YAML manifests
- Managing application configurations with ConfigMaps and Secrets
- Rolling updates and rollbacks
- Understanding VPC and networking concepts
- Configuring load balancing for EKS applications
- Service discovery and DNS in EKS
- Ingress controllers and their configuration
Overview of persistent storage in Kubernetes
- Using Amazon EBS and Amazon EFS for storage
- Managing storage classes and volumes
- Setting up monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch
- Logging application output and metrics
- Using AWS X-Ray for tracing applications
- Configuring IAM roles and permissions for EKS
- Networking security with security groups and network policies
- Best practices for securing container images
- Understanding Kubernetes scaling concepts
- Auto-scaling applications with Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
- Managing cluster resources and cost optimization
- Common issues and troubleshooting strategies
- Best practices for deploying and managing applications on EKS
- Continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) strategies with EKS
- Summary of key takeaways
- Resources for further learning and certification options
- Community and support for AWS EKS users
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