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This free online training is aimed at users new to Kubernetes, or those interested in using Rancher to easily deploy and manage Kubernetes.

From purpose-built hardware to virtual machines and now containers, service providers and telcos are re-thinking how they deploy and deliver cloud and network services. These service providers are on a journey to break down their monolithic stacks into small, reusable components that are consistent with a micro-services architecture.

This free online training is aimed at users new to Kubernetes, or those interested in using Rancher to easily deploy and manage Kubernetes.

This free online training is aimed at users new to Kubernetes, or those interested in using Rancher to easily deploy and manage Kubernetes.

This free online training is aimed at users new to Kubernetes, or those interested in using Rancher to easily deploy and manage Kubernetes.

We all have gone through the introductory talks about Istio, but there is some confusion on how you can bring Istio in to a full production environment. In this master class, we will help you understand this journey of bringing Istio into a production environment and how it differs from your testing environments.

As more container deployments move into production there will be an increasing level of attacks on application containers and the orchestration tools to manage them. The success of Kubernetes has been a major enabler for the "service mesh" concept to become a reality, as a "sidecar" container is the ideal form-factor for service mesh functions to be placed together with the service itself.

Understanding how to monitor the "Golden Signals" of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) in your Kubernetes cluster(s) is an important skill for any engineer, especially for Day 2 Operations. Fortunately, there are some very useful, powerful, and open source tools and technologies out there for accomplishing these tasks. This training session will go over how to monitor these "Golden Signals" in a Kubernetes cluster using Prometheus and Slack.

The three pillars of observability are metrics, logs, and traces. To get a complete view into your applications as well as the Kubernetes platform they run on, you need to be looking at all the different perspectives. In this session, we will look at each pillar to see how we can use the information collected to understand what is happening in our environment today and how to troubleshoot the problems we experience tomorrow. We will share how to do this using various open source tools as well as using the Datadog platform.

It's often considered hard to use persistent storage correctly with Kubernetes. The concepts of Volume, PV, PVC, Storage Class; the implication of read-write-once vs read-write-many; the difference between Deployment vs StatefulSet are each obstacles for users to fully understand Kubernetes's persistent storage.