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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)
1
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

Installing the Helm binary

Helm can be easily installed and can be compliable with many different operating systems. You can refer to the following instruction to set up Helm on your system:

https://helm.sh/docs/intro/install/

You must configure kubectl to work for Amazon EKS. If you have not already done this, please refer to Chapter 3, Building Your First EKS Cluster, to help you configure kubectl properly.

On Linux, you can use the following command to download and install the Helm binary:

$ curl -L https://git.io/get_helm.sh | bash -s -- --version v3.8.2

At the time of writing this book, Helm 3.9.x had some issues using the AWS authenticator plugin, so v3.8.2 is used. You will need to make sure that the /usr/local/bin/ directory is in your PATH.