Learn container concepts, images, containers, registries, and the Docker execution model.

Build, tag, inspect, pull, and push container images.

Create efficient Dockerfiles and build reproducible container images.

Use multiple build stages to produce smaller production images.

Understand bridge, host, container, and user-defined network behavior.

Manage persistent container data using Docker volumes and bind mounts.

Secure container images, runtime privileges, credentials, and supply chains.

Use Amazon ECR to store, scan, tag, and retrieve container images.

Understand ECS clusters, services, tasks, task definitions, and scheduling.

Configure container images, CPU, memory, ports, environment, logging, and roles in ECS task definitions.

Run ECS containers without managing EC2 container instances.

Configure ECS task networking, security groups, subnets, public IPs, and service discovery.

Expose ECS services through Application Load Balancers and maintain healthy task counts.

Scale ECS services based on demand using target tracking and other scaling policies.

Deploy new ECS task definition revisions safely using rolling deployments and deployment controls.

Understand blue-green deployment strategies and traffic shifting for ECS services.

Use AWS Cloud Map to provide service discovery for containerized applications.

Monitor ECS tasks, services, containers, logs, CPU, memory, and deployment health.

Understand managed Kubernetes control planes, node groups, pods, services, and clusters.

Deploy container workloads in Kubernetes using pods, ReplicaSets, and Deployments.

Expose Pods internally or externally using Kubernetes Service types.

Organize workloads and manage configuration with namespaces, ConfigMaps, and Secrets.

Understand IAM integration, cluster access, Kubernetes RBAC, and workload permissions.

Manage Kubernetes worker nodes using EKS managed node groups.

Run selected Kubernetes Pods on serverless compute using EKS Fargate profiles.

Understand VPC CNI, Pod IP addressing, security groups, and Kubernetes networking on EKS.

Expose Kubernetes applications using AWS load balancers through the AWS Load Balancer Controller.

Use Kubernetes storage abstractions with Amazon EBS and Amazon EFS.

Scale Kubernetes workloads and nodes using HPA, Cluster Autoscaler, and Karpenter concepts.

Monitor Kubernetes workloads using CloudWatch, Container Insights, logs, metrics, and traces.

Secure Kubernetes workloads with RBAC, network policies, Pod security, secrets, and image controls.

Secure container supply chains with ECR scanning, signing concepts, SBOMs, and trusted builds.

Secure ECS tasks with IAM roles, security groups, secrets, private networking, and runtime controls.

Use ECS Service Connect for simplified service-to-service connectivity and observability.

Understand ECS capacity providers and how services select compute capacity.

Define ECS infrastructure reproducibly using CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, or other IaC tools.

Build automated pipelines from source code through image creation, scanning, registry publishing, and deployment.

Optimize ECS, Fargate, EKS, image storage, logging, and compute utilization.

Diagnose image, networking, IAM, scheduling, health, resource, and deployment failures.

Design and operate a production-grade AWS container platform using ECS, ECR, Fargate, or EKS.