Running Containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Training

Duration

3 days.

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

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

Skills Gained

• Describe 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 and Kubernetes Role Based Access Control (RBAC) authorization.
• Deploy an application on the cluster. Publish container images to Amazon ECR and secure access via IAM policy.
• Deploy applications using automated tools and pipelines. Create a GitOps pipeline using WeaveFlux.
• Collect monitoring data through metrics, logs, and 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 the impact of tuning for one over the others. Describe and outline a holistic, iterative approach to optimizing your environment. Design for cost, efficiency, and resiliency.
• Configure AWS networking services to support the cluster. Describe how Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) supports Amazon EKS clusters and simplifies inter-node communications. Describe the function of the VPC Container Network Interface (CNI). Review the benefits of a service mesh.
• Upgrade your Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and third party tools.

Who Can Benefit?

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

• DevOps engineers
• Systems administrators