Learn how to deploy workloads and add-ons to Amazon EKS

Your workloads are deployed in containers, which are deployed in Pods in Kubernetes. A Pod includes one or more containers. Typically, one or more Pods that provide the same service are deployed in a Kubernetes service. Once you’ve deployed multiple Pods that provide the same service, you can:

• View information about the workloads running on each of your clusters using the AWS Management Console.

• Vertically scale Pods up or down with the Kubernetes Vertical Pod Autoscaler.

• Horizontally scale the number of Pods needed to meet demand up or down with the Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler.

• Create an external (for internet-accessible Pods) or an internal (for private Pods) network load balancer to balance network traffic across Pods. The load balancer routes traffic at Layer 4 of the OSI model.

• Create an Application Load Balancer to balance application traffic across Pods. The application load balancer routes traffic at Layer 7 of the OSI model.

• If you’re new to Kubernetes, this topic helps you Deploy a sample application.

• You can restrict IP addresses that can be assigned to a service with externalIPs.