Chapter 1: Setting Our Sights -- Chapter 2: Starting from Scratch -- Chapter 3: Building the Infrastructure Base -- Chapter 4: Sculpting Kubernetes: The Initial Steps -- Chapter 5: Bridging Kubernetes and AWS Resources -- Chapter 6. The Structure of Application -- Chapter 7. Be a Good Kubernetes Citizen -- Chapter 8: The Intricacies of Helm -- Chapter 9: Choosing the Right CI/CD Platform -- Chapter 10: Wrapping Up.

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. Zero-Maintenance Strategies for AWS EKS will provide you with a solid foundation and a toolkit of proven strategies for managing cloud infrastructure. You will: 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 .