The release of Rancher 2.5 introduced some significant changes to the Istio Service Mesh integration. In addition to those changes, the Istio project has also undergone some significant redesign in recent versions. Staying current in this fast moving space can be a challenge. Fear not! In this Master Class, Rancher Field Engineer Jason Skrzypek will summarize the notable changes, discuss the rationale behind some of them, and demonstrate the possibilities that this new implementation unlocks.

vSphere continues to be a popular destination for Rancher-provisioned Kubernetes clusters. In this Master Class, Rancher Staff Software Engineer, Luther Monson and Field Engineer, David Holder present updates on the capabilities of Rancher with vSphere. Follow along with a full cluster lifecycle demonstration showcasing template creation, provisioning, cloud providers and more.

With Rancher 2.5, the integrated Monitoring and Alerting system has been improved significantly and is now much more powerful and flexible. It is easier than ever to scrape your own workloads with Prometheus, to create custom dashboards in Grafana and to configure alerts and notification channels to your liking. In this Master Class, Rancher Field Engineer Bastian Hofmann will discuss these improvements and demo how you can customize the whole monitoring system to fit your needs.

Rancher 2.5 is available now! Join Rancher Labs to see how this latest release enables enterprises to deliver Kubernetes at unparalleled scale from core, to cloud, to edge. Rancher users now have access to.

Kubernetes has exploded in popularity due to its versatility, ease of use, and powerful autoscaling abilities. With Rancher, teams can seamlessly manage their Kubernetes and cloud-native workloads. Getting observability into such a dynamic technology, however, remains challenging.

This is a recording of the Rancher 2.5 Launch Webinar for the APAC region, delivered on 2020-10-27.

API Gateways and Service Meshes have always had a contentious relationship. The vernacular around either is muddled and imprecise. While it may not be immediately apparent as feature sets ebb and flow, there are many configurations where having both is beneficial and proper.

This is the demo from Rancher Field Engineer Sheldon Lo-A-Njoe for KubeCon EMEA 2020, in which he demonstrates the cool things you can do with K3s, a bunch of Raspberry Pi SBCs and Chaos Engineering.

Hosted cloud provider Kubernetes services like EKS alleviate the operational burden of Kubernetes. The cluster operator is still responsible for upgrades and all the day 2 operations for the applications running on the cluster. In this meetup we'll discuss how Rancher can help manage the lifecycle of EKS clusters, and will walk through importing existing and provisioning new EKS clusters through Rancher. We will also look at how to deploy Rancher logging and monitoring onto the cluster to handle day 2 operations on the cluster.

Helm 3 is developing a set of best practices that help make Kubernetes applications more secure. As a recent graduate from incubation to full-fledged project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Helm has been developing its own ecosystem and is working towards mature tooling. Join Rancher and JFrog as they provide more details into updates in Helm 3 and how Helm Charts create reproducible security in the Kubernetes ecosystem.