Building and Deploying a Containerized Application with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

In this lab, you deploy a containerized application by using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS).

Level

Intermediate

Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Prepare an AWS Cloud9 workspace
• Create an Amazon EKS cluster
• Prepare a Docker application and push it to an Amazon ECR repository
• Deploy an AWS Load Balancer Controller
• Deploy an application into an Amazon EKS cluster
• Configure and view Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights on a Kubernetes cluster

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Architects
• Developers
• DevOps Engineers
• Infrastructure Engineers
• Systems Operators

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Navigate the AWS Management Console.
• Use shell commands in Linux environments

Course Outline

• Task 1: Preparing the AWS Cloud9 workspace
• Task 2: Creating the Amazon EKS cluster
• Task 3: Creating Docker images
• Task 4: Creating an Amazon ECR repository and pushing the Docker image to it
• Task 5: Authenticating to the Amazon EKS cluster
• Task 6: Running the AWS Load Balancer Controller on Amazon EKS
• Task 7: Deploying the lab application
• Task 8: Configuring IAM roles for Amazon EKS pods
• Task 9: Deploying Amazon Clo8udWatch Container Insights