Kubernetes Hands-On – Deploy Microservices to the AWS Cloud

Use Kubernetes to deploy a Microservice architecture. You’ll deploy, manage and monitor a live Kubernetes cluster.

What you’ll learn

Deploy containers to a Kubenetes Cluster
Run Kubernetes in AWS using either EKS or Kops
Monitor a live Kubernetes cluster using Prometheus and Grafana
Analyse system-wide logs using the ELK Stack (ElasticStack); Kibana and ElasticSearch
Handle Alerts in a Kubernetes cluster by notifying Slack Channels
Understand how Requests and Limits work in Kubernetes
Use Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaling
Use RBAC to restrict access to a Kubernetes cluster
Configure Ingress Control on a live Kubernetes deployment
Understand Kubernetes StatefulSets
Integrate Kubernetes with a Continuous Deployment System (CD)

Some previous knowledge of Docker is useful, but an overview is provided as part of the course
Previous knowledge of AWS is useful for the later sections of the course; however all the concepts are explained in detail and this would serve as a great first project on AWS
We’ll be using the terminal throughout the course so some (basic) familiarity of terminal operations is assumed
You will need a modern computer with at least 8Gb of RAM to run the practical sessions

Anyone wanting to use Kubernetes on live production projects
We will be using AWS in the later sections of the course (optional); all AWS concepts are explained so this is a great start if you’re new to the cloud, but be aware that AWS do charge for usage.