In this chapter, you learned how to deploy Docker applications using Kubernetes and the AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Kubernetes has established itself as one of the leading container management platforms with a strong open source community, and with AWS now supporting Kubernetes customers with the EKS service, Kubernetes is certain to grow even more in popularity.
You first learned how to leverage the native support for Kubernetes in Docker Desktop, which makes it very easy to get up and running with Kubernetes locally. You learned how to create a variety of core Kubernetes resources including pods, deployments, services, secrets, and jobs, which provide the fundamental building blocks for running your applications in Kubernetes. You also learned how to configure support for persistent storage, leveraging persistent volume claims to abstract the application&apos...