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stacksimplify/aws-eks-kubernetes-masterclass
AWS EKS Kubernetes - Masterclass | DevOps, Microservices
A companion repo for a paid Udemy course on running Kubernetes workloads on AWS EKS. It's a collection of YAML manifests and step-by-step READMEs covering cluster setup, storage, load balancers, autoscaling, and CI/CD with AWS native tools. Aimed at people who bought the course, not independent learners.
The YAML manifests are real working examples covering non-trivial setups — EBS CSI driver with PVCs, ALB ingress with SSL redirect, Fargate profiles, and HPA/VPA/CA together. The module structure mirrors a logical learning progression from fundamentals to production concerns. It was updated as recently as June 2026, so the EBS CSI and Load Balancer Controller sections reflect current AWS patterns (Pod Identity, not IRSA). The breadth is genuine: 18 AWS services and 30+ Kubernetes concepts in one repo.
The repo is a course handout, not a standalone resource — the READMEs assume you're watching a video alongside them and frequently say things like 'refer to the lecture'. Without the paid course, many sections are incomplete instructions. All the sample apps are trivially simple Spring Boot and Nginx containers; nothing here resembles what you'd actually deploy in production. There's no Terraform or infrastructure-as-code for the EKS cluster itself — everything is eksctl CLI commands in a README, which is fine for learning but useless as a reusable template. The Java app source code isn't in this repo at all, only pre-built Docker Hub images.