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Running Containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
In this course, you will learn how to use Amazon EKS to manage and orchestrate containers with Kubernetes. With Amazon EKS you can run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install, operate, and...
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Duration
3 days
Course Code
AWS-EKS
Available Formats
Classroom, Virtual
Upcoming Course Dates
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Jul 22, 2025 - Jul 24, 2025 (3 days)
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Sep 9, 2025 - Sep 11, 2025 (3 days)
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Nov 18, 2025 - Nov 20, 2025 (3 days)
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Overview
In this course, you will learn how to use Amazon EKS to manage and orchestrate containers with Kubernetes. With Amazon EKS you can run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install, operate, and maintain your own Kubernetes control plane. You will manage container images using Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) and learn how to automate application deployment. You will deploy applications using continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) tools. You will learn how to monitor and scale your environment by using metrics, logging, tracing, and horizontal and vertical scaling. You will also manage storage for your containerized applications, configure AWS networking services to support the cluster, and learn how to secure your Amazon EKS environment.
Skills Gained
In this course, you will learn to:
- Describe the main components of Kubernetes, including the key objects and the core components of the Kubernetes API.
- Describe how Amazon EKS manages the Kubernetes control plane and parts of the data plane.
- Build and maintain an Amazon EKS cluster.
- Deploy applications to an Amazon EKS cluster.
- Manage applications running in enterprise-scale Amazon EKS clusters.
- Configure efficient, secure communication both within the cluster and with outside services.
- Configure observability in an Amazon EKS cluster.
- Provision storage for applications running on Amazon EKS.
- Secure an Amazon EKS cluster.
Who Can Benefit
This course is intended for people who provide container orchestration management in the AWS Cloud, including:
- Cloud architects
- DevOps engineers
- Systems administrators
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have:
- Completed Introduction to Containers
- Completed Amazon EKS Primer
- Completed AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (or have equivalent real-world experience)
- Basic Linux administration experience
- Basic network administration experience
Course Details
Day 1
Module 1: Kubernetes Fundamentals
- Benefits of containers
- Container orchestration
- Kubernetes internals
- Pod scheduling
- Kubernetes objects
Module 2: Amazon EKS Fundamentals
- Introduction to Amazon EKS
- Amazon EKS control plane
- Amazon EKS data plane
- Fundamentals of Amazon EKS security
- Two APIs: Kubernetes and Amazon EKS
- Hands-On Lab: Deploying Kubernetes Pods
Module 3: Building and maintaining an Amazon EKS cluster
- Creating an Amazon EKS cluster
- Deploying nodes
- Planning for an upgrade
- Upgrading your Kubernetes version
Module 4: Deploying Applications to Your Amazon EKS Cluster
- Application deployment methods
- Working with Amazon ECR
- Deploying applications with Helm
- Hands-On Lab: Deploying Applications
Module 4: Building an Amazon EKS Cluster
- Visual review of the Amazon EKS architecture to be built in labs
- IAM authentication
- Amazon VPC and AWS networking fundamentals
- Different methods to create a cluster
- High-level steps in cluster creation
- Function of eksctl
- Preparing for labs: Review the lab activities for the course
- Hands-On Lab 02: Building an Amazon EKS cluster
Day 2
Module 5: Managing Applications at Scale in Amazon EKS
- Scale to meet demand in Amazon EKS
- Continuous deployment in Amazon EKS
- GitOps and Amazon EKS
- Hands-On Lab: Continuous Deployment and GitOps
Module 6: Managing Networking in Amazon EKS
- Review: Networking in AWS
- Communicating in Amazon EKS
- Improving Pod-level security
- Load balancing with Services
Module 7: Configuring Observability in Amazon EKS
- Configuring observability in an Amazon EKS cluster
- Collecting metrics
- Managing logs
- Application tracing in Amazon EKS
- Hands-On Lab: Monitoring Amazon EKS
Day 3
Module 8: Managing Storage in Amazon EKS
- Design patterns for storage
- Persistent storage in Kubernetes
- Persistent storage with AWS storage services
- Managing secrets
- Hands-On Lab: Persistent Storage in Amazon EKS
Module 9: Managing Security in Amazon EKS
- Cloud security fundamentals
- Authentication and authorization
- Managing IAM and RBAC
- Managing Pod permissions using RBAC service accounts
- Hands-On Lab: Capstone Exercise
Schedule
3 options available
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Jul 22, 2025 - Jul 24, 2025 (3 days)
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Sep 9, 2025 - Sep 11, 2025 (3 days)
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Nov 18, 2025 - Nov 20, 2025 (3 days)
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Reviews
ExitCertified was a great. They gave me all the materials and information I needed ahead of time to prepare for the course.
It is very good and very simple instructions. almost to much hand holding.
This course gave me a clearer understanding of the AWS cloud architecture.
Although there seemed to be too many links for the course, everything worked smoothly.
Course was great and informative. The instructor had a good flow and was very personable.
