Course Objectives

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, then publish container images to ECR and secure access via IAM policy
• Automate and deploy applications; examine automation tools and pipelines; and 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—along with the impact of tuning one instead of the other
• Describe and outline a holistic, iterative approach to optimizing your environment, designing for cost, efficiency, and resiliency
• Configure AWS networking services to support the cluster and describe how EKS/Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) functions simplify inter-node communications
• Describe the function of the VPC Container Network Interface (CNI) and review the benefits of a service mesh
• Upgrade your Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and third-party tools