Kubernetes on AWS

Using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Materials Created by me, @vallard

Contents

This repo is for a class I teach on using EKS. This class assumes you have a basic idea and understanding about:

• Python
• AWS
• Docker
• Kubernetes - you should know at least a little about it.

The purpose of the class is to show how to get an EKS cluster up and running, do some administration, and then run some applications. Finally we show how to integrate other AWS services (Lambda, DynamoDB) in with our EKS cluster.

Segment 1 - Introduction / Foundations

• Introduction
• Why Containers are a big deal
• Trade Offs
• Kubernetes in a Nutshell
• Clone Github Resources
• Install kubectl

Segment 2 - IAM

• Create IAM Resources with Terraform
• AWS User Setup
• Install eksctl

Segment 3 - Launch EKS

• Launch the EKS cluster with eksctl
• Launch EKS cluster manually
• kubectl access

Segment 4 - Cluster Verification

• Verify components and launch sample test application

Segment 5 - Running Applications

• Loadbalancers
• Ingress
• Configure R53 DNS to point to the ELB
• TLS certificates
• Persistent Volumes

Segment 6 - Cluster Lifecycle

• Cluster Autoscaling
• Horizontal Pod Autoscaling
• Kubernetes Dashboard
• Add additional users to the cluster
• Updating the cluster

Segment 7 - Connecting to additional AWS services

• Serverless with EKS
• EKS DynamoDB example