Running Your First Application on EKS
In the previous chapters, we talked about how to configure and build a basic cluster. In this chapter, we will explore how we deploy our first application on that cluster.
Kubernetes has grown in popularity due in part to the flexible way you can build and deploy services and applications and how you can use key Kubernetes features to recover from failure and scale your application in and out. In the CNCF Annual Survey in 2021, 96% of respondents said they were either using or evaluating Kubernetes.
In this chapter, we cover the different ways you can deploy a simple application on EKS and tools to visualize your workloads. Specifically, we will cover the following:
- Understanding the different configuration options for your application
- Creating your first EKS application
- Visualizing your workloads using the AWS Management Console and third-party tools, such as Lens
You should be familiar with YAML, basic networking...