Mastering Elastic Kubernetes Service on AWS: Deploy and manage EKS clusters to support cloud-native applications in AWS

by Malcolm Orr, Yang-Xin Cao

Leverage AWS EKS to optimally manage Kubernetes deployment, scaling, and monitoring for your containerized applications.
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Key FeaturesSeamlessly deploy and run Kubernetes applications on AWSOvercome security and networking issues in Kubernetes to improve the performance of your appsScale and provision resources to meet the dynamic needs of the cluster using AWS EKSBook DescriptionKubernetes 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.What you will learnUnderstand Amazon EKS architecture and how every component worksEffectively manage Kubernetes cluster on AWS with Amazon EKSBuild a Docker image and push it to AWS ECREfficiently scale and provision resources leveraging Amazon EKSDive deep into security and networking with Amazon EKSUnderstand Fargate serverless and apply it to the workloadWho this book is forThis book is for cloud architects and cloud engineers who want to efficiently manage Kubernetes with Amazon EKS. Basic knowledge of containerization, Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS services is needed to grasp the content present in this book.

Table of ContentsThe Fundamentals of Kubernetes and Containers Introducing Amazon EKSBuilding Your First EKS ClusterRunning Your First Application on EKSUsing Helm to Manage a Kubernetes ApplicationSecuring and Accessing Clusters on EKSNetworking in EKSManaging Worker Nodes on EKSAdvanced Networking with EKSUpgrading EKS ClustersBuilding Applications and Pushing Them to Amazon ECR Deploying Pods with Amazon StorageUsing IAM for Granting Access to ApplicationsSetting Load Balancing for Applications on EKSWorking with AWS FargateWorking with a Service MeshEKS ObservabilityScaling Your EKS ClusterEnabling EKS control plane loggingTroubleshooting common issues

448 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 21, 2023

Reviews

[Robisson Oliveira · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book, it explores every detail of how to set up and operate a Kubernetes cluster within AWS. I especially liked the part that explores the different node groups that can be configured in EKS.