Table of Contents

The Fundamentals of Kubernetes and Containers

Introducing Amazon EKS

Building Your First EKS Cluster

Running Your First Application on EKS

Using Helm to Manage a Kubernetes Application

Securing and Accessing Clusters on EKS

Networking in EKS

Managing Worker Nodes on EKS

Advanced Networking with EKS

Upgrading EKS Clusters

Building Applications and Pushing Them to Amazon ECR

Deploying Pods with Amazon Storage

Using IAM for Granting Access to Applications

Setting Load Balancing for Applications on EKS

Working with AWS Fargate

Working with a Service Mesh

EKS Observability

Scaling Your EKS Cluster

Enabling EKS control plane logging

Troubleshooting common issues

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.