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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)

Getting started with Terraform

Terraform is a command-line tool that you can run on your workstation to make changes to your infrastructure. Terraform is a single binary that just needs to be installed onto your path.

You can download Terraform from https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html for six different operating systems, including macOS, Windows, and Linux. Download the ZIP file for your operating system, extract it, and then copy the Terraform binary to a location on your path.

Terraform uses files with the .tf extension to describe your infrastructure. Because Terraform supports the management of resources on many different cloud platforms, it can contain the concepts of the relevant providers, which are loaded as required to support the different APIs exposed by the different cloud providers.

First, let's configure the AWS Terraform provider in order to be ready to...