The Introduction to AWS EKS course is designed to aid and equip those, with a basic understanding of web-based software development, to know how to quickly launch a new EKS Kubernetes cluster and deploy, manage and measure its attributes.

In this course, you will learn how to utilize a range of new skills from, understanding how EKS implements and deploys clusters into a VPC and leverages ELBs to expose Kubernetes services, to gaining the ability to use, control, manage and measure an EKS Kubernetes cluster deployed application.

This course is made up of 4 in-depth demonstrations that, at the end of the course, will enable you to deploy an end-to-end microservices web-based application into an EKS Kubernetes cluster.

Learning Objectives

Understand the basic principles involved with launching an EKS Kubernetes cluster.
Analyze how to set up the required EKS client-side tooling required to launch and administer an EKS Kubernetes cluster.
Learn how to use the eksctl tool to create, query, and delete an EKS Kubernetes cluster.
Follow basic kubectl commands to create, query, and delete Kubernetes Pods and Services.
Explain how EKS implements and deploys cluster into a VPC and leverages ELBs to expose Kubernetes services.
Learn how to author and structure K8s definition files using YAML.
Gain experience in how to deploy an end-to-end microservices-based web application into an EKS Kubernetes cluster.
Be able to use, control, manage and measure an EKS Kubernetes cluster deployed application.

Prerequisites

High-level understanding of web-based software development.
Knowledge of Docker and Containers.
Prior experience in microservice architectures.

Intended Audience

Software Developers.
Container and Microservices Administrators and Developers.
Cloud System Administrators and/or Operations.

Source Code: Store2018 Microservices

https://github.com/cloudacademy/Store2018

Source Code: Store2018 EKS Kubernetes Deployment Files

https://github.com/cloudacademy/Store2018/tree/master/K8s

AWS Credential Management

The terminal based demonstrations provided within this course use the AWS_PROFILE environment variable to specify a named profile for AWS authentication. For more information regarding how this is setup and managed read the following documentation:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-profiles.html

Related Training Content

Introduction to Kubernetes (Learning Path)
Administering Kubernetes Clusters (Course)