Running Containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

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.

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Completed Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Primer
• Completed AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (CP-ESS) (or equivalent real-world experience)
• Basic Linux administration experience
• Basic network administration experience
• Basic knowledge of containers and microservices