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Using Kubernetes with AWS

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Using Kubernetes with AWS

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- [Instructor] One of the most popular container orchestration services is called Kubernetes. Kubernetes is an open source version of an internal Google project called Borg that they use to orchestrate their server clusters. If you want to use Kubernetes to orchestrate your containers instead of ECS, Amazon has a service called Elastic Kubernetes Service or EKS. You'll find a lot of similarities between ECS and EKS and it can be hard to decide between them. ECS is simpler to use. Kubernetes can be harder to learn, but it can be run on any on-premise server or cloud provider so you aren't locked into using AWS if you decide you want to switch later. Kubernetes is more popular and you may find more community support, and it may integrate better with some automation tools you'd like to use. Kubernetes also lets you get more control over the networking layer of how your containers will talk to each other. With both ECS…

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