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Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789536058

Length 468 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Docker

Concepts

Containerization

Authors (3):

Richard Bullington-McGuire

Michael Schwartz

Andrew K. Dennis

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: An Introduction to Docker – Containers and Local Development

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Docker FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Using VirtualBox and Docker Containers for Development

4. Chapter 3: Sharing Containers Using Docker Hub

5. Chapter 4: Composing Systems Using Containers

6. Section 2: Running Docker in Production

7. Chapter 5: Alternatives for Deploying and Running Containers in Production

8. Chapter 6: Deploying Applications with Docker Compose

9. Chapter 7: Continuous Deployment with Jenkins

10. Chapter 8: Deploying Docker Apps to Kubernetes

11. Chapter 9: Cloud-Native Continuous Deployment Using Spinnaker

12. Chapter 10: Monitoring Docker Using Prometheus, Grafana, and Jaeger

13. Chapter 11: Scaling and Load Testing Docker Applications

14. Section 3: Docker Security – Securing Your Containers

15. Chapter 12: Introduction to Container Security

16. Chapter 13: Docker Security Fundamentals and Best Practices

17. Chapter 14: Advanced Docker Security – Secrets, Secret Commands, Tagging, and Labels

18. Chapter 15: Scanning, Monitoring, and Using Third-Party Tools

19. Chapter 16: Conclusion – End of the Road, but not the Journey

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Spinning up AWS EKS with CloudFormation

Now that we have walked through a local installation of Kubernetes and explored some of the cloud vendor options, we are going to try deploying containers to an AWS-hosted Kubernetes environment. This will be the EKS service we briefly introduced in the previous section of this chapter.

In order to achieve this, we will describe how to create and manage an EKS cluster using AWS CloudFormation, their infrastructure-as-code service. For more information on CloudFormation, be sure to check out the AWS guides and documentation at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/.

Assuming you have previously created an AWS account or followed the instructions under the Technical requirements section of this chapter, load up the AWS cloud console.

To proceed, we need to set up EKS. There are many ways to get a working EKS cluster that require varying amounts of work: