# Tutorial: Connect from a containerized application hosted on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
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This tutorial walks you through the steps required to set up an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster to host a containerized application that connects to Amazon Keyspaces using SigV4 authentication.

Amazon EKS is a managed service that eliminates the need to install, operate, and maintain your own Kubernetes control plane. [Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/) is an open-source system that automates the management, scaling, and deployment of containerized applications.

The tutorial provides step-by-step guidance to configure, build, and deploy a containerized Java application to Amazon EKS. In the last step you run the application to write data to an Amazon Keyspaces table.

**Topics**
+ [Prerequisites for connecting from Amazon EKS to Amazon Keyspaces](EKS-tutorial-prerequisites.md)
+ [Step 1: Configure the Amazon EKS cluster and setup IAM permissions](EKS-tutorial-step1.md)
+ [Step 2: Configure the application](EKS-tutorial-step2.md)
+ [Step 3: Create the application image and upload the Docker file to your Amazon ECR repository](EKS-tutorial-step3.md)
+ [Step 4: Deploy the application to Amazon EKS and write data to your table](EKS-tutorial-step4.md)
+ [Step 5: (Optional) Cleanup](EKS-tutorial-step5.md)