Running Containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (RCAEKS)

Day 1

Module 0: Course Introduction

• Course preparation activities and agenda

Module 1: Container Fundamentals

• Design principles for building applications
• What are containers?
• Components of a container
• Writing Dockerfiles

Module 2: Kubernetes Fundamentals

• Challenges of managing many containers
• What is Kubernetes, and why is it important?
• Components of the Kubernetes control plane
• Kubernetes worker nodes and pods
• Key Kubernetes objects
• Managing Kubernetes with kubectl
• Hands-On Lab 1: Deploying Kubernetes Pods

Module 3: Amazon EKS Fundamentals

• How Amazon EKS manages the Kubernetes control plane
• Fundamentals of Amazon EKS security
• Use cases for extending Amazon EKS to the data plane
• Running worker nodes on managed node groups
• Running containers on AWS Fargate with Amazon EKS
• Amazon EKS tasks versus Kubernetes tasks

Module 4: Building an Amazon EKS Cluster

• Visual review of the Amazon EKS architecture to be built in labs
• IAM authentication
• Amazon VPC and AWS networking fundamentals
• Different methods to create a cluster
• High-level steps in cluster creation
• Function of eksctl
• Preparing for labs: Review the lab activities for the course
• Hands-On Lab 02: Building an Amazon EKS cluster

Day 2

Module 5: Deploying Applications to Your Amazon EKS Cluster

• Publishing container images to Amazon ECR
• Deploying applications with Helm
• Continuous deployment in Amazon EKS
• GitOps and Amazon EKS
• Hands-On Lab 03: Deploying applications

Module 6: Architecting on Amazon EKS Part 1: Observe and Optimize

• Configuring observability in an Amazon EKS cluster
• Collecting metrics
• Using metrics to automatically scale EC2 Auto Scaling groups
• Managing logs
• Application tracing in Amazon EKS
• Gaining and applying insight from observability
• Hands-On Lab 04: Monitoring Amazon EKS

Module 7: Architecting on Amazon EKS Part 2: Balancing Efficiency, Resiliency, and Cost

• Optimizing your Amazon EKS application architecture
• Relationship between cost, efficiency, and resilience
• Anatomy of an Amazon EKS cluster from a cost perspective
• Using tagging with pod placement for cost accountability
• Sizing containers and worker nodes efficiently

Day 3

Module 8: Managing Networking in Amazon EKS

• Review: VPC fundamentals
• The importance of major communication components
• Communication flow in a noncontainerized architecture
• Challenges of network communication in Kubernetes
• Comparing the Docker communication solution with the Kubernetes model
• How Amazon EKS and Amazon VPC simplify inter-node communications
• Managing pod communication in Amazon EKS
• The relationship between communications and scalability
• Running worker nodes in a subnet not associated with the cluster
• Managing service name resolution
• Using a service mesh with Amazon EKS
• Configuring AWS App Mesh
• Hands-On Lab 05: Exploring Amazon EKS Communication

Module 9: Securing Amazon EKS Clusters

• How IAM integrates with Kubernetes Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Managing cluster endpoint access control
• Auditing access with AWS CloudTrail logs
• Mitigating security risks during the build of a container image
• Securing network communications
• Managing secrets
• Hands-On Lab 06: Securing Amazon EKS

Module 10: Managing Upgrades in Amazon EKS

• Contrasting Kubernetes version updates and Amazon EKS platform version updates
• Upgrading your Kubernetes version
• Upgrading your Amazon EKS version
• Maintaining your third-party applications