Running Kubernetes on AWS (EKS)

Learn how to use Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) to deploy enterprise-scale Kubernetes clusters.

Introduction

• Optimize the delivery of your applications
• What you need to know

1. Kubernetes on Amazon

• Deployment models
• Requirements for EKS deployment
• Creating IAM roles and policies
• Install the CLI tools
• Launch an EKS cluster

2. Scaling EKS Workers

• EC2 vs. Fargate
• Selecting worker sizing
• Creating scaling worker pools
• Install Kubernetes kubectl
• Using labels to select pools

3. EKS Storage

• Creating storage classes
• Storage persistent claims
• Challenge: Cleaning up storage
• Solution: Set the PV for autoremoval

4. EKS and Network Policy

• Network policy
• Load balancing and ingress

5. EKS and Application Security

• AWS IAM and K8S RBAC
• Kubernetes namespaces

6. Monitoring EKS Deployments

• K8S Native: Prometheus
• Using CloudTrail and CloudWatch
• Challenge: Get pod metrics
• Solution: Add a filter on pod label

Conclusion

• Next steps