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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

To get the most out of this book

You will need an AWS Account and an operating system to run applications as listed in the table below. To ensure a smooth reading experience, knowledge of basic AWS concepts such Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Elastic Block Storage (EBS), EC2, Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Kubernetes are recommended.

Software covered in the book

Prequisite

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

An AWS Account

Amazon Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

Linux/macOS/Linux

kubectl

Linux/macOS/Linux

eksctl

Linux/macOS/Linux

Helm

Linux/macOS/Linux

Lens (Kubernetes IDE)

Linux/macOS/Linux

In this book, we will explore various tools and learn how to manage Kubernetes clusters on AWS. You can find the latest version and download the required software by following the following guides:

We have tried to make this a practical book with plenty of code examples. To get the most out of this book, you should have basic familiarity with AWS, Linux, YAML, and K8s architecture.