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DevOps for Developers

Kubernetes is a powerful container management tool that's taking the world by storm. This detailed course will help you master it.

In this course, you'll start with the fundamentals of Kubernetes and what the main components of a cluster look like. You'll then learn how to use those components to build, test, deploy, and upgrade applications, as well as how to achieve state persistence once your application is deployed. You'll also learn how to secure your deployments and manage resources, which are crucial DevOps skills.

By the time you're done, you'll have a firm grasp on what Kubernetes is, as well as the skills to deploy your own clusters and applications with confidence.

A Practical Guide to Kubernetes

# Setting Up AWS CLI

We'll continue using the specifications from the `vfarcic/k8s-specs` repository, so the first thing we'll do is to clone and go inside the directory.



git clone https://github.com/vfarcic/k8s-specs.git
cd k8s-specs



We will assume that you already have an AWS account. If that's not the case, please head over to [Amazon Web Services](https://aws.amazon.com/) and sign-up.
 
>ℹ️  If you are already proficient with AWS, you might want to skim through the text that follows and only execute the commands.

The first thing we should do is get the AWS credentials.

Please open [Amazon EC2 Console](https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/), click on your name from the top-right menu and select *My Security Credentials*. You will see the screen with different types of credentials. Expand the *Access Keys (Access Key ID and Secret Access Key)* section and click the *Create New Access Key* button. Expand the *Show Access Key* section to see the keys.

You will not be able to view the keys later on, so this is the only chance you'll have to *Download Key File*.

We'll put the keys as environment variables that will be used by the [AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)](https://aws.amazon.com/cli/).

Please replace `[...]` with your keys before executing the commands that follow.

Prepare for the setup of our production-ready cluster by setting up AWS CLI and default region environment variables.

Preparing for the Cluster Setup: AWS CLI and Region

Setting Up AWS CLI