Running Containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

Length 3 days
Price NZD 2550 exc GST

Course overview

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Why study this course

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.

This course includes presentations, hands-on labs, demonstrations, and group exercises.

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What you’ll learn

This course is designed to teach participants how to:

Describe the main components of Kubernetes, including the key objects and the core components of the Kubernetes API
Describe how Amazon EKS manages the Kubernetes control plane and parts of the data plane
Build and maintain an Amazon EKS cluster
Deploy applications to an Amazon EKS cluster
Manage applications running in enterprise-scale Amazon EKS clusters
Configure efficient, secure communication both within the cluster and with outside services
Configure observability in an Amazon EKS cluster
Provision storage for applications running on Amazon EKS
Secure an Amazon EKS cluster

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Who is the course for?

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

Cloud architects
DevOps engineers
Systems administrators

Course subjects

Module 1: Kubernetes Fundamentals

Benefits of containers
Container orchestration
Kubernetes internals
Pod scheduling
Kubernetes objects

Module 2: Amazon EKS Fundamentals

Introduction to Amazon EKS
Amazon EKS control plane
Amazon EKS data plane
Fundamentals of Amazon EKS security
Two APIs: Kubernetes and Amazon EKS
Hands-On Lab: Deploying Kubernetes Pods

Module 3: Building and maintaining an Amazon EKS cluster

Creating an Amazon EKS cluster
Deploying nodes
Planning for an upgrade
Upgrading your Kubernetes version

Module 4: Deploying Applications to Your Amazon EKS Cluster

Application deployment methods
Working with Amazon ECR
Deploying applications with Helm
Hands-On Lab: Deploying Applications

Module 5: Managing Applications at Scale in Amazon EKS

Scale to meet demand in Amazon EKS
Continuous deployment in Amazon EKS
GitOps and Amazon EKS
Hands-On Lab: Continuous Deployment and GitOps

Module 6: Managing Networking in Amazon EKS

Review: Networking in AWS
Communicating in Amazon EKS
Improving Pod-level security
Load balancing with Services

Module 7: Configuring Observability in Amazon EKS

Configuring observability in an Amazon EKS cluster
Collecting metrics
Managing logs
Application tracing in Amazon EKS
Hands-On Lab: Monitoring Amazon EKS

Module 8: Managing Storage in Amazon EKS

Design patterns for storage
Persistent storage in Kubernetes
Persistent storage with AWS storage services
Managing secrets
Hands-On Lab: Persistent Storage in Amazon EKS

Module 9: Managing Security in Amazon EKS

Cloud security fundamentals
Authentication and authorisation
Managing IAM and RBAC
Managing Pod permissions using RBAC service accounts
Hands-On Lab: Capstone Exercise

Please note: This is an emerging technology course. Course outline is subject to change as needed.

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

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

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