Introduction to AWS EKS

The Introduction to AWS EKS lesson 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 lesson, 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 lesson is made up of 4 in-depth demonstrations that, at the end of the lesson, 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 lesson 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 (Course)
• Administering Kubernetes Clusters (Lesson)