Deploying a Microservices Application into EKS

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This course provides detail on the AWS Container services relevant to the Developer - Associate 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

 

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Jeremy is a Content Lead Architect and DevOps SME here at Cloud Academy where he specializes in developing DevOps technical training documentation.

He has a strong background in software engineering, and has been coding with various languages, frameworks, and systems for the past 25+ years. In recent times, Jeremy has been focused on DevOps, Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Security, Kubernetes, and Machine Learning.

Jeremy holds professional certifications for AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes (CKA, CKAD, CKS).

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