Amazon EKS Distro
This lesson provides detail on the AWS Container services relevant to the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional exam, covering ECS, ECR, and EKS.
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Learning Objectives
- Learn about microservices and the benefits that a microservice-based architecture or application has over a monolithic application
- Understand the difference between containers and virtual machines
- Learn how to create your own containers and run them within ECS and deploy them either serverlessly or on EC2 instances
- Understand what the Elastic Container Registry is used for and its components
- Understand what the Elastic Kubernetes Service is used for and its components
- Understand how EKS implements and deploys clusters into a VPC
- Learn how to use, control, manage, and measure an EKS Kubernetes cluster deployed application
- Understand how AWS Copilot is used as a command-line interface to launch and manage containerized applications on AWS
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