Module 0: Course Introduction

• Course preparation activities and agenda

Module 1: Kubernetes Fundamentals

• Container orchestration
• Kubernetes objects
• Kubernetes internals

Module 2: Amazon EKS Fundamentals

• Introduction to Amazon EKS
• Amazon EKS control plane
• Amazon EKS data plane
• Fundamentals of Amazon EKS security
• Amazon EKS API

Module 3: Building an Amazon EKS Cluster

• Configuring your environment
• Creating an Amazon EKS cluster
• Demo: Deploying a cluster
• Deploying worker nodes
• Demo: Completing a cluster configuration
• Preparing for Lab 1: Building an Amazon EKS Cluster

Module 4: Deploying Applications to Your Amazon EKS Cluster

• Configuring Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)
• Demo: Configuring Amazon ECR
• Deploying applications with Helm
• Demo: Deploying applications with Helm
• Continuous deployment in Amazon EKS
• GitOps and Amazon EKS

Module 5: Configuring Observability in Amazon EKS

• Configuring observability in an Amazon EKS cluster
• Collecting metrics
• Using metrics for automatic scaling
• Managing logs
• Application tracing in Amazon EKS
• Gaining and applying insight from observability
• Preparing for Lab 3: Monitoring Amazon EKS

Module 6: Balancing Efficiency, Resilience, and Cost Optimization in Amazon EKS

• The high level overview
• Designing for resilience
• Designing for cost optimization
• Designing for efficiency

Module 7: Managing Networking in Amazon EKS

• Review: Networking in AWS
• Communicating in Amazon EKS
• Managing your IP space
• Deploying a service mesh
• Preparing for Lab 4: Exploring Amazon EKS Communication

Module 8: Managing Authentication and Authorization in Amazon EKS

• Understanding the AWS shared responsibility model
• Authentication and authorization
• Managing IAM and RBAC
• Demo: Customizing RBAC roles
• Managing pod permissions using RBAC service accounts

Module 9: Implementing Secure Workflows

• Securing cluster endpoint access
• Improving the security of your workflows
• Improving host and network security
• Managing secrets
• Preparing for Lab 5: Securing Amazon EKS

Module 10: Managing Upgrades in Amazon EKS

• Planning for an upgrade
• Upgrading your Kubernetes version
• Amazon EKS platform versions