You're reading from Mastering Elastic Kubernetes Service on AWS Deploy and manage EKS clusters to support cloud-native applications in AWS

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803231211

Length 448 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Yang-Xin Cao

Malcolm Orr

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Getting Started with Amazon EKS

2. Chapter 1: The Fundamentals of Kubernetes and Containers FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Introducing Amazon EKS

4. Chapter 3: Building Your First EKS Cluster

5. Chapter 4: Running Your First Application on EKS

6. Chapter 5: Using Helm to Manage a Kubernetes Application

7. Part 2: Deep Dive into EKS

8. Chapter 6: Securing and Accessing Clusters on EKS

9. Chapter 7: Networking in EKS

10. Chapter 8: Managing Worker Nodes on EKS

11. Chapter 9: Advanced Networking with EKS

12. Chapter 10: Upgrading EKS Clusters

13. Part 3: Deploying an Application on EKS

14. Chapter 11: Building Applications and Pushing Them to Amazon ECR

15. Chapter 12: Deploying Pods with Amazon Storage

16. Chapter 13: Using IAM for Granting Access to Applications

17. Chapter 14: Setting Load Balancing for Applications on EKS

18. Chapter 15: Working with AWS Fargate

19. Chapter 16: Working with a Service Mesh

20. Part 4: Advanced EKS Service Mesh and Scaling

21. Chapter 17: EKS Observability

22. Chapter 18: Scaling Your EKS Cluster

23. Chapter 19: Developing on EKS

24. Part 5: Overcoming Common EKS Challenges

25. Chapter 20: Troubleshooting Common Issues

26. Index

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What is Amazon EKS?

According to data from Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), at the end of 2017, nearly 57% of Kubernetes environments were running on AWS. Initially, if you wanted to run Kubernetes on AWS, you had to build the cluster by using tools such as Rancher or Kops on top of EC2 instances. You would also be required to constantly monitor and manage the cluster, deploying open source tools such as Prometheus or Grafana, and have a team of operational staff making sure the cluster was available and managing the upgrade process. Kubernetes also has a regular release cadence: three releases per year as of June 2021! This also leads to a constant operational pressure to upgrade the cluster.

As the AWS service roadmap is predominately driven by customer requirements, the effort needed to build and run Kubernetes on AWS led to the AWS service teams releasing EKS in June 2018.

Amazon EKS is Kubernetes! AWS takes the open source code, adds AWS-specific plugins for identity...