Learn Amazon EKS: A Managed Kubernetes Service on AWS
What you'll learn
- Provision an Amazon EKS cluster using CloudFormation
- Refresher course on Pod, Service and Deployment
- Autoscale your cluster using the Cluster Autoscaler
- Autoscale your application using Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
- Setup Pod level fine-grained IAM permissions using Kube2Iam
- Expose services using NGINX Ingress Controller and Amazon Elastic Load Balancer
- Use Amazon EBS for persistent storage in stateful applications - Wordpress with MySQL backend
- Use Amazon EFS for persistent storage in stateful applications
- Setup a log aggregation system using Amazon Elasticsearch, Fluentd and Kibana
- Secure your cluster using Network policies
- Integrate Amazon EKS with other services in the AWS eco-system like the IAM, Elastic Load Balancer, Route53, Amazon EBS, Amazon EFS, CloudWatch Logs and Elasticsearch
- Update: 07/05/20 - Create an end-to-end CI/CD Pipeline using AWS CodePipeline & AWS CodeBuild
- Update: 08/09/20 - Create and manage EKS clusters using eksctl CLI tool
- Update: 01/03/21 - Learn how to use Helm - a package manager for Kubernetes
Requirements
- Basic understanding of Kubernetes and Docker containers
- Basic understanding of Amazon Web Services – Some experience with VPC, EC2, EBS, ELB, Security Group and Route53 is necessary
- Preliminary knowledge of Linux
- A Windows, Mac or Linux Computer with a modern Browser, NodeJS, a Code Editor and Docker Installed
- (Optional) Domain name to follow along in one of the hands-on lesson
Description
01/03/21 - UPDATE. New Bonus Section added on Helm, which is a package manager for Kubernetes.
08/09/20 - UPDATE. New Bonus Section added on creating and managing EKS clusters using the official EKS CLI tool eksctl, including how to add Spot instance-based worker nodes.
07/05/20 - UPDATE. New Bonus Section added on setting up an entire end-to-end CI/CD Pipeline using AWS CodePipeline & CodeBuild
There’s no denying that Kubernetes has now become the de-facto industry standard for container orchestration - and Amazon EKS continues to rise in popularity as the most adopted managed Kubernetes service in the cloud .
Welcome to this course on Amazon EKS - the only course you need to learn in order to provision your managed Kubernetes cluster, run your containerized applications on it, and tap into the eco-system of allied tools and technologies supporting it.
I have distilled my professional experience of using Amazon EKS in a real-world large-scale enterprise-grade project for over 1 year into this particular course so that you can benefit from it without having to spend countless hours going through the hoops. I am also a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) & a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) as of Dec 2019.
"I have been working on Kubernetes for quite some time however this course added new dimension by joining the dots. Well Done!!" - Avadhesh Mishra, Student
"The sections on autoscaling are terrific. Dhiman does a great job of explaining and walking through the kubernetes samples. He speaks fluently, clearly and eloquently. Really enjoyed this class and would recommended to anybody wanting to know more about EKS. Great job Dhiman." - Ed Academio, Student
"It is good course for EKS if you understand the fundamental of Kubernetes. Instructor has very good knowledge about topics." - Jitendra Singh, Student
Learning to run Kubernetes on the cloud is an absolute must for any DevOps professional these days. So if you are on the fence, dive right in and follow along on this exciting journey.
This course emphasizes on learning by doing hands on lessons. Every chapter has a theory section followed by hands-on tutorial!
To summarize, you will learn:
How to provision your own Amazon EKS cluster on AWS
How to use Kubectl for creating and managing pod, service and deployment
How to autoscale your cluster
How to autoscale your application
How to deploy stateless application and expose it using Ingress Controller and Elastic Load Balancer
How to use Amazon EBS volumes for persistent storage in stateful applications (WordPress with MySQL backend)
How to use Amazon EFS for persistent storage in stateful applications
How to setup a log aggregation system using Amazon Elasticsearch, Fluentd and Kibana
How to secure your EKS cluster using network policies
Learn How to make Amazon EKS work well with other services in the AWS eco-system like the IAM, Elastic Load Balancer, Route53, Amazon EBS, Amazon EFS, CloudWatch Logs and Elasticsearch
CI/CD Pipeline using CodePipeline & CodeBuild
How to use the official EKS CLI tool eksctl to create and manage EKS clusters
How to use Helm command-line tool to install/ update and create Helm charts for Kubernetes
Who this course is for:
- Architects, Tech Leads, DevOps Professional, Developers willing to learn how to envisage and build complete end-to-end solutions with Amazon EKS and host of other allied AWS services
Course content
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Instructor
I am a Solutions Architect with 16 years of IT experience - I have worked with the AWS platform for more than 10 years. I hold 5 AWS certifications including AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS DevOps Professional, and all the 3 AWS associate certifications. I am also Kubernetes certified and hold both CKA and CKAD. I have a tonne of experience Architecting & Developing scalable fault-tolerant distributed systems.