Running Containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Day 1

Resources

The following resource links will provide more information and help reinforce topics covered during Day 1:

Module 1: Kubernetes Fundamentals

• Kubernetes 1.21 Release Information
• What is Kubernetes?
• Kubernetes 101: Pods, Nodes, Containers, and Clusters
• Kubernetes 110: Your First Deployment
• Kubernetes 120: Networking Basics
• 23 Advanced kubectl commands
• 2019 CNCF Survey results are here: Deployments are growing in size and speed as cloud native adoption becomes mainstream
• Kubernetes production best practices
• Kubernetes Operators for beginners
• What Is The Kubernetes Operator Pattern?
• Introducing the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK)
• kubectl Cheat Sheet
• Deployments
• Storage Classes
• Kubernetes Scheduler
• Resource Quotas
• Assigning Pods to Nodes
• Node-specific Volume Limits
• Well-Known Labels, Annotations and Taints
• Example: Deploying WordPress and MySQL with Persistent Volumes
• ReplicaSet
• Configure Liveness, Readiness and Startup Probes
• API Groups
• Amazon EFS CSI driver
• kubectl one-liners

Module 2: Amazon EKS Fundamentals

• Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
• What is Amazon EKS?
• The role of AWS Fargate in the container world
• AWS re:Invent Fargate for EKS
• Serverless Kubernetes Cluster on AWS with EKS on Fargate
• Learn to run Containers - directly from the experts
• AWS re:Invent 2019: AWS Fargate under the hood
• Amazon EKS customers
• EKS Best Practices Guides
• Public roadmap for AWS container services (ECS, ECR, Fargate, and EKS)
• AWS Kubernetes: Kops vs. EKS
• Create an Amazon EKS Cluster with Managed Node Group using Terraform
• Amazon EKS optimized AMIs
• Amazon EKS simplifies installation and management for Kubernetes cluster add-ons
• Amazon EKS adds support for EC2 Spot Instances in managed node groups
• Modular and Scalable Amazon EKS Architecture Quickstart
• eksctl - The official CLI for Amazon EKS

Module 3: Building an Amazon EKS cluster

• Cluster VPC considerations
• Subnet tagging
• VPC with a single public subnet
• Installing, updating, and uninstalling the AWS CLI
• Installing aws-iam-authenticator
• Installing kubectl
• Getting started with Amazon EKS – eksctl
• Amazon EKS cluster IAM role
• Modifying cluster endpoint access
• Amazon EKS AMI Build Specification
• Bottlerocket OS
• Create a kubeconfig for Amazon EKS
• Deleting a managed node group
• cluster-autoscaler-chart
• eksctl - The official CLI for Amazon EKS
• Getting started with Amazon EKS
• Creating and managing clusters
• eksctl – the EKS CLI
• How to configure your EKS cluster
• node-configuration-daemons
• EKS Best Practices and Solutions