Amazon EKS — Workloads

With your cluster and nodes ready, it’s time to deploy workloads. This chapter covers every Kubernetes workload type on EKS — Deployments, StatefulSets, Jobs, CronJobs, and DaemonSets — along with configuration management using ConfigMaps and Secrets.

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Topics Covered

#	Topic	Description
1	Deploying Applications	Deployments, health checks, rolling updates, and ECR integration
2	ConfigMaps & Secrets	Application configuration and secrets management on EKS
3	Jobs & CronJobs	Batch processing and scheduled tasks
4	StatefulSets on EKS	Stateful workloads with persistent storage
5	DaemonSets & System Workloads	Node-level agents and system components
6	Hands-On Lab	Deploy a complete application stack on EKS
7	Practice Questions	Test your workload deployment knowledge

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Workload Types at a Glance

Type	Use Case	Replicas	Persistent Storage	Example
Deployment	Stateless apps	Yes (scalable)	No	Web API, frontend
StatefulSet	Stateful apps	Yes (ordered)	Yes (per-pod PVC)	Database, message queue
DaemonSet	Node-level agents	One per node	Optional	Log collector, monitoring agent
Job	One-time tasks	Configurable	Optional	Data migration, report generation
CronJob	Scheduled tasks	Per schedule	Optional	Backups, cleanup scripts

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