Leverage AWS EKS to optimally manage Kubernetes deployment, scaling, and monitoring for your containerized applications Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key Features Seamlessly deploy and run Kubernetes applications on AWS Overcome security and networking issues in Kubernetes to improve the performance of your apps Scale and provision resources to meet the dynamic needs of the cluster using AWS EKS Book 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 learn Understand Amazon EKS architecture and how every component works Effectively manage Kubernetes cluster on AWS with Amazon EKS Build a Docker image and push it to AWS ECR Efficiently scale and provision resources leveraging Amazon EKS Dive deep into security and networking with Amazon EKS Understand Fargate serverless and apply it to the workload Who 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.

About the Author
Malcolm Orr Is a Principal Architect in AWS Professional Services. He holds 7 AWS certifications along with CKAD and spends his time working with AWS customers to build, deploy and manage cloud native applications and microservices. Before AWS, Malcolm has worked in a number of roles including author, contractor, chief startup dogs body and advisory practice lead and enjoys the solving technical challenges. Yang-Xin (Eason) Cao has 5+ years industry experience in AWS DevOps/Container field. He is also an AWS certified Solution Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional and CNCF Certified Kubernetes Administrator. He started his Kubernetes journey in 2017 and enjoys solving real-world business problems. His work history includes FAANG and assisted many customers resolving difficult technical problems including top 500 Fortune companies. Besides his daily routine, he likes to share interesting issues through content creation. His blog posts regarding EKS have exceeded over 8000+ views and helped many EKS users to get benefit from them. When the laptop is shutdown, he will have a different identity - a powerlifter, a marathon runner, or a scuba diver.


Book Information
ISBN 9781803231211
Author Malcolm Orr
Format Paperback
Page Count 448
Imprint Packt Publishing Limited
Publisher Packt Publishing Limited