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Amazon EKS - Building a Cloud Native Application

Difficulty: Intermediate

Duration: Up to 2 hours and 15 minutes

Students: 2,696

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Description

Building and deploying Cloud Native Applications in EKS has never been easier.

In this hands-on lab, you'll learn how to create and deploy a cloud native application into a EKS cluster. Along the way you'll learn how to work with Kubernetes resources such as Deployments, Services, StatefulSets, PVs, PVCs, and Secrets. You'll learn how to use kubectl to configure and integrate all of these resources together to implement a stateful web based voting application.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this Lab, you will be able to:

Use kubectl to deploy resources into an EKS cluster
Work with and configure commonly used Kuberenetes resources
Expose EKS hosted applications to the Internet

Intended Audience

This lab is intended for:

Kubernetes practitioners
DevOps Engineers
SREs

Lab Prerequisites

You should be familiar with:

Basic Linux command line administration
Basic Kubernetes and Container-based concepts

Lab Environment

This Lab will start with the following AWS resources provisioned automatically for you:

1 x EKS cluster - Cluster-1 - provides a fully functional Kubernetes cluster
- 1 x NodeGroup
  - 2 x EC2 Worker Nodes
2 x EC2 instances
- eks.launch.instance - used to launch the EKS cluster
- cloudacademylabs - used to provide an SSH based terminal