Course Overview

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.

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Level: Intermediate

Duration: 3 Days

Delivery Type: Instructor-Led Training

Course Objectives

• 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

Prerequisites

Required

• Basic knowledge of containers and microservices
• Basic Linux administration experience
• Basic network administration experience
• Completed Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Primer
• AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

Who Should Go For This Training?

• Those who will provide container orchestration management in the AWS Cloud
• DevOps Engineers
• Systems Administrators

Course Outline

Day 1

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Course preparation activities and agenda

Module 2: Container Fundamentals

• Best practices for building applications
• Container fundamentals
• Components of a container

Module 3: Kubernetes Fundamentals

• Container orchestration
• Kubernetes objects
• Kubernetes internals
• Preparing for Lab 1: Deploying Kubernetes Pods

Module 4: Amazon EKS Fundamentals

• Introduction to Amazon EKS
• Amazon EKS control plane
• Amazon EKS data plane
• Fundamentals of Amazon EKS security
• Amazon EKS API

Day 2

Module 5: Building an Amazon EKS Cluster

• Configuring your environment
• Creating an Amazon EKS cluster
• Demo: Configuring and deploying clusters in the AWS Management Console
• Working with eksctl
• Preparing for Lab 2: Building an Amazon EKS Cluster

Module 6: Deploying Applications to Your Amazon EKS Cluster

• Configuring Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)
• Demo: Configuring Amazon ECR
• Deploying applications with Helm
• Demo: Deploying applications with Helm
• Continuous deployment in Amazon EKS
• GitOps and Amazon EKS
• Preparing for Lab 3: Deploying App

Module 7: Configuring Observability in Amazon EKS

• Configuring observability in an Amazon EKS cluster
• Collecting metrics
• Using metrics for automatic scaling
• Managing logs
• Application tracing in Amazon EKS
• Gaining and applying insight from observability
• Preparing for Lab 4: Monitoring Amazon EKS

Module 8: Balancing Efficiency, Resilience, and Cost Optimization in Amazon EKS

• The high level overview
• Designing for resilience
• Designing for cost optimization
• Designing for efficiency

Day 3

Module 9: Managing Networking in Amazon EKS

• Review: Networking in AWS
• Communicating in Amazon EKS
• Managing your IP space
• Deploying a service mesh
• Preparing for Lab 5: Exploring Amazon EKS Communication

Module 10: Managing Authentication and Authorization in Amazon EKS

• Understanding the AWS shared responsibility model
• Authentication and authorization
• Managing IAM and RBAC
• Demo: Customizing RBAC roles
• Managing pod permissions using RBAC service accounts

Module 11: Implementing Secure Workflows

• Securing cluster endpoint access
• Improving the security of your workflows
• Improving host and network security
• Managing secrets
• Preparing for Lab 6: Securing Amazon EKS

Module 12: Managing Upgrades in Amazon EKS

• Planning for an upgrade
• Upgrading your Kubernetes version
• Amazon EKS platform versions