Running Containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

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Course ID: AWSRCAEKS
Duration: 3 Days
Training Fee: HK$18,000
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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
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
Intended Audience

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

  • DevOps engineers
  • Systems administrators
Delivery Method

This course will be delivered through a blend of:

  • Presentations
  • Hands-on labs
  • Demonstrations
  • Group exercises
Course Outline

This course will cover the following concepts:

 

Day 1

Module 0: Course Introduction

  • Course preparation activities and agenda

 

Module 1: Kubernetes Fundamentals

  • Container orchestration
  • Kubernetes objects
  • Kubernetes internals

 

Module 2: Amazon EKS Fundamentals

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

 

Module 3: Building an Amazon EKS Cluster

  • Configuring your environment
  • Creating an Amazon EKS cluster
  • Demo: Deploying a cluster
  • Deploying worker nodes
  • Demo: Completing a cluster configuration
  • Preparing for Lab 1: Building an Amazon EKS Cluster

 

Module 4: 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 2: Deploying Applications

 

Day 2

Module 5: 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 3: Monitoring Amazon EKS

 

Module 6: Balancing Efficiency, Resilience, and Cost Optimization in Amazon EKS

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

 

Module 7: Managing Networking in Amazon EKS

  • Review: Networking in AWS
  • Communicating in Amazon EKS
  • Managing your IP space
  • Deploying a service mesh
  • Preparing for Lab 4: Exploring Amazon EKS Communication

 

Day 3

Module 8: 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 9: Implementing Secure Workflows

  • Securing cluster endpoint access
  • Improving the security of your workflows
  • Improving host and network security
  • Managing secrets
  • Preparing for Lab 5: Securing Amazon EKS

 

Module 10: Managing Upgrades in Amazon EKS

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

This course is not associated with any certification.

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