DevOps Simplified: Zero-Maintenance Strategies for AWS EKS

Gain the knowledge and practical skills needed to deploy a fully functional, secure, and scalable application in AWS EKS. This book is a hands-on guide designed to help you navigate and manage infrastructure in the AWS EKS environment.

The book starts by reviewing the concept of DevOps flexibility, emphasizing adaptability to manage changes effectively. It covers foundational elements like IAM basics, user management, and the use of Terraform for infrastructure as code, highlighting the importance of version stability and unique CIDR blocks. Moving forward, you¿ll explore Kubernetes, and its initial set-up steps, such as configuration management, access control, and storage. You¿ll also see how to bridge Kubernetes with AWS resources, touching upon service accounts, identity federation, and policy assignment.

In the final chapters, the book guides you through the complete setup of a fully working application using Terraform. The book culminates with a step-by-step walkthrough of deploying a complete application environment where you¿ll generate and distribute access credentials, configure persistent storage, and manage RBAC for users, all using Terraform.

ZeroMaintenance Strategies for AWS EKS will provide you with a solid foundation and a toolkit of proven strategies for managing cloud infrastructure.

What You Will Learn

• Understand the concept of DevOps flexibility and its practical applications
• Acquire foundational knowledge in IAM basics and user management.
• Manage external access to your applications while consolidating load balancing through a single, entry point.
• Securely configure DNS and SSL, ensuring your application is both accessible and protected.

Who This Book Is For

DevOps professionals, IT managers, and software developers who are looking to adopt or improve their DevOps practices, and students and educators in IT-related fields.

Dmytro Kozhevin is an accomplished DevOps Engineer and Educator with over 18 years of experience, now channeling his expertise into building a DevOps practicing platform. His professional journey has been marked by a commitment to innovation and excellence in DevOps, particularly within cloud environments like AWS. He aims to demystify complex DevOps challenges and present accessible, scalable solutions. Dmytro is currently employed with Luxoft in Ukraine as a DevOps Trainer specializing in CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure, focusing on AWS EKS.