Introduction

Based on a recent survey of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, CNCF, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a dominant solution for production-level Kubernetes systems (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2017/12/06/cloud-native-technologies-scaling-production-applications/). In this chapter, you will learn about the cloud services of AWS, and how these services work together to deliver a robust Kubernetes system. We will also introduce how kops works, a tool for Kubernetes operation, which helps us manage the Kubernetes cluster. Let's explore the world of Kubernetes in AWS!