Running Kubernetes on AWS (EKS) (2021)
1h 29mAdvanced2021-01-06
Authors
Robert Starmer
Cloud Advisor, Founder of Kumulus Technologies
Course details
Kubernetes fans rejoice. You can now use this popular container orchestration tool with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deploy enterprise-scale Kubernetes clusters—without the headaches of managing multiple masters. This course teaches you the ins and outs of Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), including understanding the deployment model and creating the needed Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and policies. Instructor Robert Stormer also shows how to deploy and scale EKS workers to meet your needs, and integrate storage and networking. Plus, find out how to manage user access with Amazon IAM and Kubernetes RBAC, and monitor your deployments and underlying resources. Along the way, Robert introduces useful Kubernetes extensions and add-ons that can be used in the AWS environment.
Skills covered
KubernetesDevOps ToolsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AmazonDevOpsCloud ServicesCloud PlatformsEssential TrainingCloud ComputingOpen Source
Concepts
Introduction
- Optimize the delivery of your applications
- What you need to know
Kubernetes on Amazon
- Deployment models
- Requirements for EKS deployment
- Creating IAM roles and policies
- Install the CLI tools
- Launch an EKS cluster
Scaling EKS Workers
- EC2 vs. Fargate
- Selecting worker sizing
- Creating scaling worker pools
- Install Kubernetes kubectl
- Using labels to select pools
EKS Storage
- Creating storage classes
- Storage persistent claims
- Challenge Cleaning up storage
- Solution Set the PV for autoremoval
EKS and Network Policy
- Network policy
- Load balancing and ingress
EKS and Application Security
- AWS IAM and K8S RBAC
- Kubernetes namespaces
Monitoring EKS Deployments
- K8S Native Prometheus
- Using CloudTrail and CloudWatch
- Challenge Get pod metrics
- Solution Add a filter on pod label
Conclusion
- Next steps