Author name: Rajkumar Aute

Implementing IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) across multi-cloud environments (e.g., authenticating GKE, AKS, or on-premises Kubernetes workloads to AWS)

EKS Pod Identity is the newer, streamlined alternative to IRSA. Unlike IRSA, it does not require configuring an OIDC provider

Provision an OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity provider, map an AWS IAM Role to a Kubernetes Service Account, and verify access

Hands-on Lab: Provisioning Your First EKS Cluster with eksctl Objective: Spin up a fully functional Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Master Quiz: Etcd Architecture Data Consistency Score: 0/25 💾 Master Quiz: Etcd Architecture Validate your understanding of the Cluster’s Memory,

Lab 1: The “Hello World” of Etcd (Direct Interaction) Goal: Understand how to talk to Etcd directly, bypassing the Kubernetes

Master Quiz: Kubernetes Architecture Cluster State Score: 0/25 ☸️ Master Quiz: Kubernetes Architecture Validate your knowledge of the Control Plane,

Master Quiz: Kubernetes API Server Control Plane Score: 0/25 ☸️ Master Quiz: Kube-API Server Validate your knowledge of the Cluster’s