Project 4: Host a Dynamic Web Application on AWS with Docker and EKS

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🗓️ Date: Saturday, December 6th, 2025 ⏰ Time: 11:00 AM EST (U.S. – New York Time) 🎙️ Instructor: Azeez Salu 💻 Level: Intermediate → Advanced ⏱️ Duration: ~4 hours (with live Q&A) 🟢 Goal Learn how to containerize and deploy a production-ready, database-driven web application on AWS using Docker, Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service), and enterprise-grade Kubernetes architecture with container orchestration, auto-scaling, and high availability. 🧱 Session Outline 1️⃣ Architecture Overview Review Project 1 components and introduce containerized application architecture with Docker and Kubernetes on EKS 2️⃣ EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint Verify EICE from Project 2 and test secure SSH connectivity 3️⃣ NAT Gateway Enable secure outbound Internet access for private subnets 4️⃣ Security Groups Configure security for Data Migration Server and RDS Database (EKS automatically manages cluster and load balancer security groups) 5️⃣ Setting Up a MySQL RDS Instance in AWS 🔹 Create DB Subnet Group 🔹 Launch MySQL database in private subnets 🔹 Store credentials in AWS Secrets Manager 6️⃣ Migrate Data into RDS 🔹 Launch EC2 instance for data migration 🔹 Run migrate command in user data 🔹 Verify SQL data migration into RDS 7️⃣ Verify Programmatic Access 🔹 Confirm IAM user credentials from Project 3 🔹 Verify AWS CLI connectivity and permissions 8️⃣ Verify GitHub SSH Key Setup 🔹 Confirm SSH key pairs from Project 3 🔹 Test GitHub authentication 9️⃣ Create EKS Project Folder in GitHub Repository 🔹 Navigate to project repository from Project 3 🔹 Create dedicated folder for Kubernetes manifests 🔹 Push folder structure to remote repository 🔟 Building and Pushing Docker Image to ECR 🔹 Review Dockerfile for application 🔹 Build Docker image locally 🔹 Authenticate Docker to ECR 🔹 Tag and push Docker image to ECR 1️⃣1️⃣ EKS Cluster Setup 🔹 Create IAM Policy for Secrets Manager access 🔹 Create IAM Role for EKS Cluster 🔹 Create IAM Role for Worker Nodes 🔹 Create EKS Cluster 🔹 Create Node Group 🔹 Modify RDS Security Group for EKS access 🔹 Add IAM users to cluster access (aws-auth ConfigMap) 1️⃣2️⃣ Deploy Kubernetes Manifests 🔹 Create and apply aws-auth-patch.yaml 🔹 Create and apply secret-provider-class.yaml 🔹 Create and apply deployment.yaml 🔹 Create and apply service.yaml 🔹 Verify deployment, pods, and services 🔹 Push manifests to remote repository 1️⃣3️⃣ Route 53 DNS Connect custom domain to EKS LoadBalancer and verify application access 1️⃣4️⃣ Wrap-Up & Q&A End-to-end testing, Kubernetes best practices, and live Q&A 💡 Skills You'll Learn ✅ Docker containerization ✅ Dockerfile creation and optimization ✅ Git and GitHub workflows ✅ Amazon ECR image management ✅ Multi-tier containerized AWS architecture ✅ Kubernetes fundamentals and concepts ✅ kubectl command-line operations ✅ Kubernetes manifest file creation (YAML) ✅ Amazon EKS cluster management ✅ EKS Node Groups and worker nodes ✅ Kubernetes Deployments and Services ✅ AWS Secrets Store CSI Driver integration ✅ IAM Roles for EKS (Cluster and Node Roles) ✅ RDS database management ✅ AWS Secrets Manager integration ✅ LoadBalancer Service type in Kubernetes ✅ Production DNS with Route 53 ☁️ AWS Services Covered VPC • Subnets • NAT Gateway • Security Groups • EC2 Instance Connect • EC2 • RDS • Secrets Manager • IAM Roles & Policies • Amazon ECR • Amazon EKS • EKS Node Groups • Elastic Load Balancer • Route 53 • CloudWatch ☸️ Kubernetes & DevOps Tools Covered Docker • Dockerfile • Kubernetes • kubectl • Kubernetes Manifests (YAML) • AWS Secrets Store CSI Driver • Git • GitHub • AWS CLI 🧠 Real-World Use Cases ✅ Kubernetes-based microservices architectures ✅ Cloud-native application deployment on EKS ✅ Scalable enterprise platforms with Kubernetes ✅ Enterprise DevOps workflows with container orchestration ✅ Managed Kubernetes orchestration without control plane management ✅ Production-grade CI/CD pipelines with Kubernetes ✅ Secrets management integration with Kubernetes pods 🧰 Before You Join ✅ Complete Project 1, 2 & 3 or have AWS networking, EC2, and Docker knowledge ✅ AWS Free Tier account ready ✅ Basic understanding of Docker and containerization ✅ Familiarity with ECS concepts from Project 3 helpful ✅ Git and GitHub account set up ✅ AWS CLI installed locally 🔔 Don't Miss It! 📅 Saturday, December 6th, 2025 @ 11 AM EST ✅ Click "Notify Me" ✅ Subscribe & share with your network #AWS #DevOps #CloudComputing #AzeezSalu #Docker #EKS #Kubernetes #Containers #ECR #K8s #CloudNative #RDS #LoadBalancer #Route53 #kubectl #YouTubeLive #ContainerOrchestration #Microservices