ITTA offers an AWS DevOps catalogue focused on containers and cloud automation. The Running Containers on Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) course covers EKS architecture, pod deployment and management, scaling, observability, cloud-native networking and CI/CD integration. Audience: AWS DevOps engineers, SREs, cloud architects, container developers, platform profiles. Sessions delivered in Geneva, Lausanne and interactive virtual classroom.
FILTER BY
- Domains
- Editors
- Location
- Format
- Level
- Certifying
- Confirmed training
Master container management with Running Containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, a practical, in-depth course on AWS and Kubernetes
The AWS DevOps sub-publisher regroups at ITTA the courses combining AWS container, automation and application delivery services. In 2026, Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) has become a major technical foundation of AWS cloud platforms, alongside ECS (Elastic Container Service), Fargate (serverless container compute) and AWS CI/CD services (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeCommit, CodeArtifact).
This orientation toward managed Kubernetes reflects a deep trend: organisations seek to standardise on Kubernetes for application portability while delegating control plane management to AWS to reduce operational load. EKS provides Kubernetes conformant to upstream, integrated with AWS services (IAM, VPC, EBS, ALB, CloudWatch), with managed upgrades and a dedicated SLA. The AWS DevOps Engineer Professional certification (DOP-C02) now includes an important part around EKS, containers and delivery automation.
Our AWS DevOps course at ITTA:
This official AWS course covers the fundamentals and operational use of EKS: EKS cluster architecture (managed control plane, EC2 or Fargate worker nodes), cluster creation and configuration, containerised application deployment (Pods, Deployments, Services, Ingress), resource management (RBAC, quotas, limits), Kubernetes networking on AWS (VPC CNI, ALB Ingress Controller), persistent storage (EBS CSI, EFS), observability (CloudWatch Container Insights, Prometheus, Grafana), security (IAM Roles for Service Accounts, secrets, image scans), CI/CD integration (ECR, CodePipeline, GitOps), troubleshooting. The format is intensive and hands-on, with labs on a real EKS cluster.
Learning Kubernetes generically brings concepts (pods, services, controllers), but real operations play out on cloud provider integrations. On AWS, these integrations are numerous and structure daily use: IAM Roles for Service Accounts for permissions, ALB Ingress Controller for load balancing, EBS and EFS CSI for storage, AWS App Mesh for service mesh, CloudWatch and X-Ray for observability, AWS Secrets Manager and Parameter Store for secrets. A focused EKS course considerably shortens the operational learning curve.
AWS DevOps fits in the broader AWS catalogue. To start on AWS, the AWS Foundation publisher covers the fundamentals (CLF-C02 Cloud Practitioner, Solutions Architect Associate). The root publisher AWS (Amazon Web Services) regroups all AWS certifications. For the data dimension on AWS, the AWS Data Engineering publisher covers data services (Glue, Athena, Redshift, EMR).
On the method and culture side, the DevOps sub-domain brings the organisational and cultural dimension. The CI/CD versioning delivery sub-domain covers delivery tooling. For profiles combining containers and orchestration, the containerisation orchestration sub-domain offers complementary Docker and Kubernetes courses.
Our AWS DevOps audience is mainly technical: DevOps engineers needing to deploy or operate Kubernetes on AWS, SREs steering multi-account EKS platforms, cloud architects validating an EKS vs ECS vs Fargate choice for a project, developers pushing containerised applications to production on EKS and wanting to understand the target environment, platform engineers building an internal platform on top of EKS, cloud consultants intervening on application modernisation projects in French-speaking Switzerland and internationally.
AWS offers several container options. EKS is managed Kubernetes, suited to organisations wanting a portable standard and a rich ecosystem (Helm, GitOps, operators). ECS is the AWS proprietary orchestrator, simpler to handle but less portable. Fargate is serverless compute used under EKS or ECS that removes worker node management. The choice depends on context: desired multi-cloud portability, team already Kubernetes-trained, accepted operational load, cost constraints. Our course addresses this positioning at session start to help choose.
You already operate on AWS and need to add Kubernetes to your stack. The EKS course gives you the AWS-native patterns (IAM, VPC, ALB, IRSA) that make the difference on daily operations. It is also an excellent milestone toward AWS DevOps Engineer Professional certification (DOP-C02).
You build or maintain an internal platform based on EKS. The course equips your upskilling on cloud-native components, observability and EKS troubleshooting, complementing generic Kubernetes culture.
You deploy your applications on EKS and want to understand the target environment to better dialogue with your ops team. The course gives you the essential concepts (Deployments, Services, Ingress, secrets, observability) without imposing complete operational expertise.
Several trends shape AWS DevOps in 2026. GitOps adoption (Argo CD, Flux) has generalised to drive EKS deployments declaratively. Supply chain security (image signing, scans, SBOM, attestations) has become central with regulatory evolution and cyber context. Application FinOps (cost visibility by namespace, team, environment) is integrated into DevOps practices. Generative AI enters DevOps practices via copilots (manifest generation, assisted troubleshooting, test generation), with questions on the governance of these uses. Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd, AWS App Mesh) remains a topic for demanding multi-service contexts.
Our AWS DevOps sessions are scheduled in Geneva, Lausanne and in interactive virtual classroom with a live trainer. The format is very practice-oriented on a real EKS cluster. Material modalities are communicated in advance by our education team. For platform teams seeking grouped upskilling on their real EKS architecture, we organise in-house sessions calibrated on your stack. This modality is well suited to banking, insurance, public sector and e-commerce contexts operating EKS at scale.
Do I need to know Kubernetes before this course?
General Kubernetes culture (pods, services, deployments) is useful. The EKS course deepens AWS integrations and operations, assuming familiarity with basic concepts. If you start completely on Kubernetes, a generic Kubernetes course upstream is advised.
EKS or ECS to start?
If your team is already Kubernetes-trained or if you want multi-cloud portability, EKS is the right choice. If you start completely and stay 100% AWS, ECS may be simpler to handle. Our course addresses these trade-offs.
Does the course cover Fargate?
Yes, Fargate under EKS is addressed in the course as alternative to EC2 worker nodes. The choice between Fargate and EC2 worker nodes is discussed with its advantages (zero node management) and limits (integrations, cost).
Is there a DOP-C02 certification focus?
The EKS course is an important brick for AWS DevOps Engineer Professional certification (DOP-C02), but does not cover all exam domains. For complete DOP-C02 preparation, complementary sessions should be planned.
ITTA offers a coherent AWS catalogue from fundamentals (Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02) to Associate (Solutions Architect, Developer, SysOps), Professional (Solutions Architect Pro, DevOps Engineer Pro) and Specialty certifications. This continuity allows addressing a complete trajectory. Our AWS DevOps trainers are engineers and architects active on EKS and CI/CD AWS projects in French-speaking Switzerland, providing concrete and current examples. Sessions available in Geneva, Lausanne and interactive virtual classroom, in-house and inter-company.
Monday to Friday
8:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Tel. 058 307 73 00
ITTA
Route des jeunes 35
1227 Carouge, Suisse
Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 06:00 pm.
