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Essential Networking and Security for Amazon EKS

Securing your workload is a no-brainer job that requires good foundations. This course will teach you two important security concepts around EKS, which are networking and permission management, so you can ensure the integrity of your cluster.

Mario Mercado - Pluralsight course - Essential Networking and Security for Amazon EKS
Mario Mercado
What you'll learn

Networking and permission management are effective ways to secure any technological solution, and Kubernetes workloads are not different. In this course, Essential Networking and Security for Amazon EKS, you’ll learn to secure your EKS clusters from the networking and permission management perspective. First, you’ll explore best practices to implement practical and functional network customization and security for the Kubernetes clusters hosted on EKS. Next, you’ll discover how permissions are managed in EKS clusters and how it integrates with AWS IAM. Finally, you’ll learn how to secure sensitive data that the containers will need access to using AWS native service. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of security around networking and permissions needed to reduce security risks while increasing intercommunication between your applications.

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Mario Mercado - Pluralsight course - Essential Networking and Security for Amazon EKS
Mario Mercado

Experienced engineer in cloud passionate about teaching and sharing knowledge with the community. He's an AWS Community Builder and the author of "A Practical Guide to EKS" in A Cloud Guru.

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