Mastering Amazon EKS - Hands-On

This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Mastering Amazon EKS equips you with the practical skills to design, deploy, and manage production-ready Kubernetes clusters on AWS. Through guided demonstrations, you will gain confidence in container orchestration, cluster architecture, compute selection, storage configuration, networking, scaling, and secure image management using real-world scenarios. You begin by understanding container orchestration fundamentals and the limitations of native Kubernetes before diving deep into Amazon EKS architecture. Step by step, you will configure IAM roles, install CLI tools, create clusters, upgrade versions, and manage access using kubectl and AWS CLI. Each concept is reinforced through hands-on walkthroughs inside the AWS Console. As you progress, you will explore worker nodes, managed node groups, and Fargate profiles. You will expose applications using load balancers, configure persistent storage with EBS and EFS, implement ingress with ALB, enable cluster autoscaling, and integrate ECR for container image deployment. The course mirrors real production workflows. This course is ideal for cloud engineers, DevOps professionals, system administrators, and developers with basic AWS and Kubernetes knowledge. A foundational understanding of Linux, IAM, and containers is recommended. The difficulty level is Intermediate. By the end of the course, you will be able to design, deploy, secure, scale, and manage fully functional Amazon EKS clusters integrated with AWS services for production-grade container workloads.