Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Primer

This course teaches you the basics of the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). You will learn about the implementation of containers on AWS using EKS and complementary services. You will also learn about how communications and management are performed in EKS.

• Course level: Intermediate
• Duration: 60 minutes

Activities

This course includes presentations and assessments.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Explain the challenges of scaling microservice architectures at the enterprise level
• Describe the basic concepts and terminology of Kubernetes
• Configure EKS to manage the Kubernetes management infrastructure
• Differentiate between AWS Fargate and EKS Managed Node Groups
• Describe different scheduling options in EKS
• Describe how pods communicate with each other and interact with hosts in EKS
• Access a Kubernetes cluster for monitoring and management
• Describe how to enforce security on EKSExplain how upgrades are handled in EKS

Intended Audience

• This course is intended for:
• Cloud developers
• T operations staff
• DevOps engineers
• Technical decision makers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Introduction to Containers, or a basic understanding of container concepts
• Basic networking familiarity
• Basic familiarity with AWS
• Working knowledge of virtualization