Ultimate EKS Bootcamp
About Course
The Ultimate EKS Bootcamp is your complete, hands-on guide to running production-grade Kubernetes workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Whether you’re a DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, or Cloud Architect, this course takes you from EKS fundamentals to advanced autoscaling and monitoring — with a strong focus on real-world, AWS-native solutions.
We start with the foundations: preparing your AWS environment, creating an EKS cluster, and deploying applications. You’ll learn to expose workloads securely using the AWS ALB Ingress Controller and persist data with EBS volumes. Next, you’ll master IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) to enforce least-privilege security in Kubernetes.
Scaling is at the heart of modern cloud-native workloads, so you’ll implement multiple strategies: Cluster Autoscaler for node management, Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) and Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) for workload tuning, and cutting-edge solutions like Karpenter for intelligent node provisioning and KEDA for event-driven scaling.
Finally, we’ll focus on observability: monitoring EKS with Prometheus, Grafana, and AWS CloudWatch to ensure your applications run smoothly and cost-effectively.
By the end of this bootcamp, you’ll be ready to design, deploy, scale, and operate resilient Kubernetes clusters on AWS — skills that directly translate to high-value, real-world DevOps roles.
Course Content
Introduction to EKS
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Module Intro
00:48 -
What is EKS ?
06:05 -
EKS Architecture – Control Plane vs Data Plane
07:00 -
EKS Networking with VPC CNI, Setup Options and Add-ons
07:33 -
Real World Use Cases – Netflix, Snapchat and more
05:45 -
EKS Usage Patterns, Storage, Security, Autoscaling, Observability
10:39 -
Your Learning Journey, Lab Environment, Success Metrics
08:40 -
Summary
01:02