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Kubernetes on AWS

By : Ed Robinson
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Kubernetes on AWS

By: Ed Robinson

Overview of this book

Docker containers promise to radicalize the way developers and operations build, deploy, and manage applications running on the cloud. Kubernetes provides the orchestration tools you need to realize that promise in production. Kubernetes on AWS guides you in deploying a production-ready Kubernetes cluster on the AWS platform. You will then discover how to utilize the power of Kubernetes, which is one of the fastest growing platforms for production-based container orchestration, to manage and update your applications. Kubernetes is becoming the go-to choice for production-grade deployments of cloud-native applications. This book covers Kubernetes from first principles. You will start by learning about Kubernetes' powerful abstractions - Pods and Services - that make managing container deployments easy. This will be followed by a guided tour through setting up a production-ready Kubernetes cluster on AWS, while learning the techniques you need to successfully deploy and manage your own applications. By the end of the book, you will have gained plenty of hands-on experience with Kubernetes on Amazon Web Services. You will also have picked up some tips on deploying and managing applications, keeping your cluster and applications secure, and ensuring that your whole system is reliable and resilient to failure.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Creating an AWS account

If you don't already have an AWS account, then head over to https://aws.amazon.com/ and sign up for one. Before you can create resources in your account, you will need to add a credit card to your account to cover any charges.

When you first sign up for an AWS account, you will be eligible for a free usage tier on some services for the first 12 months. Unfortunately, this free tier doesn't provide quite enough resources to run Kubernetes, but in this chapter, we have optimized our choice of instances for their low cost, so you should be able to follow the examples without spending too much.

Creating an IAM user

When you sign up for an AWS account, the email address and password you choose...