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Mastering Elastic Kubernetes Service on AWS

By : Malcolm Orr, Yang-Xin Cao (Eason)
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Book Image

Mastering Elastic Kubernetes Service on AWS

5 (1)
By: Malcolm Orr, Yang-Xin Cao (Eason)

Overview of this book

Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard for container orchestration, with recent developments making it easy to deploy and handle a Kubernetes cluster. However, a few challenges such as networking, load balancing, monitoring, and security remain. To address these issues, Amazon EKS offers a managed Kubernetes service to improve the performance, scalability, reliability, and availability of AWS infrastructure and integrate with AWS networking and security services with ease. You’ll begin by exploring the fundamentals of Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and its architecture along with different ways to set up EKS. Next, you’ll find out how to manage Amazon EKS, encompassing security, cluster authentication, networking, and cluster version upgrades. As you advance, you’ll discover best practices and learn to deploy applications on Amazon EKS through different use cases, including pushing images to ECR and setting up storage and load balancing. With the help of several actionable practices and scenarios, you’ll gain the know-how to resolve scaling and monitoring issues. Finally, you will overcome the challenges in EKS by developing the right skill set to troubleshoot common issues with the right logic. By the end of this Kubernetes book, you’ll be able to effectively manage your own Kubernetes clusters and other components on AWS.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
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Part 1: Getting Started with Amazon EKS
7
Part 2: Deep Dive into EKS
13
Part 3: Deploying an Application on EKS
20
Part 4: Advanced EKS Service Mesh and Scaling
24
Part 5: Overcoming Common EKS Challenges

Part 3: Deploying an Application on EKS

This part will cover topics related to features that help you deploy your application on EKS. This section includes a complete guide for storing container images on Amazon ECR, providing persistent volumes for your application with AWS storage services such as EBS and EFS, defining the Pod security and granting permissions with IAM, and exposing and load balancing your Kubernetes application. In the last two chapters, we will look at more advanced topics such as using AWS Fargate, and how to use App Mesh to control and monitor our deployments

This section contains the following chapters:

  • Chapter 11, Building Applications and Pushing Them to Amazon ECR
  • Chapter 12, Deploying Pods with Amazon Storage
  • Chapter 13, Using IAM for Granting Access to Applications
  • Chapter 14, Setting Load Balancing for Applications on EKS
  • Chapter 15, Working with AWS Fargate
  • Chapter 16, Working with a Service Mesh
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