Running Containers on Amazon EKS Course

Course Code: GK7381

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Duration: 3 days

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Course Overview

This course teaches delegates how to use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to manage and orchestrate containers with Kubernetes on AWS.

Delegates learn to build and maintain EKS clusters, deploy containerised applications, manage images with Amazon Elastic Container Registry, automate deployment, implement GitOps practices, monitor and scale workloads, configure networking and storage, and secure the EKS environment.

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Target Audience

• Cloud architects
• DevOps engineers
• Systems administrators
• Technical professionals responsible for container orchestration in AWS

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Course Objectives

• Describe Kubernetes architecture, objects and APIs.
• Explain how Amazon EKS manages Kubernetes control and data planes.
• Build, maintain and upgrade Amazon EKS clusters.
• Deploy and manage applications using Amazon ECR and Helm.
• Apply continuous delivery and GitOps approaches.
• Configure networking, observability and storage for EKS workloads.
• Scale applications and operate EKS environments securely.

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Course Content

Day 1

• Kubernetes fundamentals and container orchestration
• Amazon EKS architecture and security fundamentals
• Creating and maintaining EKS clusters
• Deploying nodes and planning upgrades
• Amazon ECR and Helm
• Application deployment labs

Day 2

• Managing applications at scale
• Continuous deployment and GitOps
• Amazon EKS networking
• Load balancing and pod-level security
• Metrics, logs and application tracing
• Monitoring EKS environments

Day 3

• Persistent storage in Kubernetes
• AWS storage services for EKS
• Secrets management
• Authentication and authorisation
• IAM and RBAC
• Security capstone activities

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Course Prerequisites

• Foundational container and Kubernetes knowledge
• AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials or equivalent AWS experience
• Basic Linux administration experience
• Basic network administration experience