Ifrah - Deploy Containers on AWS With EC2, ECS, and EKS

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Writing a book about AWS is a complex task because AWS has more than 100 cloud services! In fact, most of the services have enough depth to be covered in a full book on its own.

When I took on the task of writing this book, I wanted to stay focused and deliver a book that covered AWS container services only, and I believe I have managed to do that.

This book is for people who dont have a lot of knowledge of AWS as well as people who have experience working with Azure who want to learn AWS. You dont need to be a developer to read this book because the objective is to learn how to deploy and manage the services and not to use an application development lifecycle approach.

This book is also for beginners, engineers, and architects who want to get started with AWS containers using a step-by-step approach while gaining hands-on experience.

To use this book, you will need to know how to use Docker and run containers on Docker Desktop or Docker Engine on Windows Server or Linux.

The most complex parts in this book are about the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, specifically where I show how to set up and deploy an EKS cluster and worker nodes.

I recommend you follow the steps in the EKS chapters without skipping anything as each step is needed to complete the next one and deploy the EKS cluster and worker nodes.

You can also use AWS Free Tier to reduce some of the costs of running AWS services; however, some of the AWS container services are not covered under the Free Tier offering.

In other words, my goal was to write a book that covered all the Amazon AWS container services from a hands-on perspective while being practical and easy to understand.

Many AWS books use an application development lifecycle approach in AWS; however, with that approach, the reader can get lost in the code and miss the primary purpose of learning the fundamentals.

This approach allows you to focus on the task on hand and learn how to deploy containers on AWS, and it gives you all the tools needed to deploy a single container or multiple containers on a large scale.

Youll gain valuable knowledge and experience with this approach to learning, deploying, scaling, and managing containers on AWS.

I would like to thank my beloved family for all the support they gave me during the writing stage of the book, which took six months; without your support and love, I wouldnt have been able to do it.