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(1) Container & Kubernetes Fundamentals

• Docker File Reference

• K8s Supported Container Runtimes

• Container Runtimes versus Container optimized VMMs

• OCI

• The 12 factor App

• The 1 Factor App

• The Open Source Dive Tool

• CNCF Landscape

• K8s Latest Release Information

• K8s CLI CheatSheet

• Kubectl One Liners

• K8s API Ref Docs

• K8s Deployment

• K8s Replicaset

• K8s Storage Class

• K8s Node Specific Volume Limits

• K8s Quotas

• K8s Scheduler

• K8s Assign Pods to Nodes

• K8s Well Known labels & Taints

• K8s Liveness Probes

• AWS EFS CSI Driver

• AWS EBS CSI Driver

• AWS FSx Lustre CSI Driver

(2) EKS Fundamentals

• Public AWS EKS Ref Customers
• EKS Video Blogcast 'Containers From The Couch'
• EKS Best Practices Guide
• EKS Public Roadmap
• EKS Optimized AMIs
• EKCTL the Official CLI for EKS

(3) Building an EKS Cluster

• GITHUB: AWS IAM Authenticator
• AWS EKS Identity Based Policy Examples
• Create EKS Kubeconfig
• AWS K8s Cluster Autoscaler
• AWS CDK Create EKS Cluster

(4) Deploying Apps to your EKS Cluster

• CI/CD EKS Workshop w/ ArgoCD
• CI/CD EKS Workshop w/ FluzCD
• CI/CD with EKS & Spinnaker
• Push an OCI Helm Chart to ECR
• CDK8s
• CDK8s Get Started
• CDK8s Github Repo

(5) Observability with EKS

• K8s monitoring Tools
• K8s Metrics Server
• K8s Custom Metrics
• EKS Control Plane Metrics w/ Prometheus
• EKS Workshop w/ Prometheus
• EKS & Amazon Managed Prometheus
• 3rd Party Blog: Cluster Autoscaler, VPA, HPA Best practices
• AWS Node Termination Handler
• EKS Workshop w/ xRay
• Istio/Jaeger Sample App we used in Class Demo:
  • https://istio.io/latest/docs/examples/bookinfo/
  • https://istio.io/latest/docs/examples/microservices-istio/logs-istio/
  • https://istio.io/latest/docs/tasks/observability/distributed-tracing/jaeger/

(6) Efficient & Well Architected clusters

• Proportional Autoscaler
• EKS pricing
• Max Pods per ENI by instance type
• Spot Instance Advisor
• EKS Best Practices Github Repo
• Fargate & EKS:
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/fargate.html
  • https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-fargate-for-amazon-eks-now-supports-amazon-efs/
• Firecracker:
  • https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/

(7) EKS Networking

• AWS VPC CNI
  • https://github.com/aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s/
• Using custom CNI's with EKS:
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/cni-custom-network.html
• Istio on EKS:
  • https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/getting-started-istio-eks/
• Layer 7 Application Load Balancing on EKS:
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/alb-ingress.html
  • https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/eks-alb-ingress-controller-setup/
  • https://github.com/aws/eks-charts/tree/master/stable/aws-load-balancer-controller
• EKS & AppMesh
• EKS Jazz AppMesh Workload Blog

(8/9) EKS AuthZ, AuthN, & Security Best Practices

• EKS BestPractices: Security
• EKS CIS benchmarks:
  • https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/introducing-cis-amazon-eks-benchmark/
• EKS Cluster Authentication:
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/managing-auth.html
  • New: Bring Your own IDP
• IAM roles & K8s Service Accounts:
  • https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-fine-grained-iam-roles-service-accounts/
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/iam-roles-for-service-accounts.html
• Docker image multi stage builds:
  • https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/multistage-build/
• Calico on EKS w VPC CNI:
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/calico.html
• AWS Security Groups for Pods:
  • https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/introducing-security-groups-for-pods/
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/security-groups-for-pods.html

(10) Upgrading EKS Clusters

• K8s Cross Version Dependencies:
  • https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/release/version-skew-policy/
• EKS K8s & Platform Versions:
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/kubernetes-versions.html
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/platform-versions.html
• EKS Reading of The 'Fine' Manuals for Upgrades:
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/update-cluster.html
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/update-managed-node-group.html
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/update-workers.html
  • https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/cluster-management/