Containerize and Run .NET Applications on Amazon EKS Windows Pods

Learners become familiar with Kubernetes, an open source system for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), a managed service to run a Kubernetes workload on Amazon Web Services (AWS) without needing to install, operate, and maintain your own Kubernetes cluster.

•     Course level: Intermediate

•     Duration: 2 hour(s)

Activities

This course includes: interactive content, videos, and knowledge check questions.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

•     Explain containers and Amazon EKS in detail.

•     Enumerate the various .NET applications types that can be run on Amazon EKS.

•     Describe the concept of Windows containers and their architecture.

•     Summarize how Windows Authentication works with Windows containers.

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

•     Architect

•     DevOps Engineer

•     Infrastructure Engineer

•     SRE (Site reliability engineer)

•     Platform Engineer Data engineers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

•     AWS Tools to Develop, Run, and Modernize .NET Workloads 

Course outline

Section 1: How to Use This Course, Introduction and Objectives

•     Lesson 1: How to Use This Course

•     Lesson 2: Objectives

Section 2: Containers Overview

•     Lesson 3: Introduction

•     Lesson 4: Containers Compared to VMs

•     Lesson 5: Advantages of Running Containers

•     Lesson 6: Knowledge Check

•     Section 3: Amazon EKS Overview

•     Lesson 7: Amazon EKS Overview

•     Lesson 8: Industries and Application Types

•     Lesson 9: Deployment Options

•     Lesson 10: Knowledge Check

•     Section 4: Amazon EKS Architecture

•     Lesson 11: Amazon EKS Architecture

•     Lesson 12: Storage Options

•     Lesson 13: Knowledge Check

•     Section 5: Containerizing .NET Applications

•     Lesson 14: Windows Containers on AWS

•     Lesson 15: Use cases

•     Lesson 16: .NET on AWS

•     Lesson 17: Advantages of containers for .NET apps

•     Lesson 18: Windows Container Types

•     Lesson 19: Anatomy of a Container

•     Lesson 20: Image behavior

•     Lesson 21: Best Practices

•     Lesson 22: Application Pod Density

•     Lesson 23: Linux vs Windows Considerations

•     Lesson 24: CI/CD Support

•     Lesson 25: Knowledge Check

Section 6: Authentication and Authorization

•     Lesson 26: Access to the Cluster

•     Lesson 27: IAM Roles for Pods

•     Lesson 28: Authentication With gMSA

•     Lesson 29: Domainless Windows Authentication

•     Lesson 30: Knowledge Check

Section 7: Decision Tree

•     Lesson 31: Decision Tree

Section 8: Summary and Conclusion

•     Lesson 32: Summary and Conclusion

Section 9: Final Assessment

•     Lesson 33: Final Assessment

Section 10: Feedback

•     Lesson 34: Feedback