When you first deploy your Rancher cluster, networking likely isn’t the first thing you think about and often the default settings are used. However, given that microservices require a network to function, it’s important to choose the right networking options before you run into scale issues and other roadblocks related to the network.

You will learn how Windows networking works with Kubernetes You’ll also learn and see how to install and configure Calico for Windows Validate pod-to-pod connectivity within the Windows nodes of your cluster

In this training and demo you’ll learn about the various networking options available to you in Rancher and considerations to take into account in order to select the best option for your environment. We will also showcase how to bootstrap and configure your Rancher cluster along with sample policy deployments.

Within the Kubernetes ecosystem, the Operator Pattern aims to encode the tasks that human operators perform with installing, maintaining, and upgrading infrastructure. It goes beyond manifests and Helm charts to add additional logic to manage critical services. Starting with the 3.15 release, Project Calico will provide an operator for managing Calico installations on Kubernetes clusters.

Companies are leveraging the power of Kubernetes to accelerate the delivery of resilient and scalable applications to meet the pace of business. These applications are highly dynamic, making it operationally challenging to securely connect to databases or other resources protected behind firewalls. Tigera and Fortinet have joined forces to solve this operational challenge. With the combination of FortiGate Next-Gen firewalls and Calico Enterprise, you gain full visibility into the container environment and can define fine-grained policies to determine which Kubernetes workloads are allowed to talk to the enterprise’s crown jewels running outside the Kubernetes cluster.

In this session, we’ll review networking options compatible with Calico for AKS cluster and will build a few AKS clusters using Azure CLI and ARM template.

Kubernetes Network Policy is the native way to implement network security controls in Kubernetes. Calico Policy is a superset of Kubernetes Network Policy that adds additional capabilities that help meet common real-world use cases. In this talk, we will educate you on the basics of Kubernetes Network Policy, the differences with Calico Policy, example use cases, and demos. You’ll walk away from this session with knowledge that will help you decide which network policy is right for you.

Amazon EKS announced the ability to use alternative CNIs to their AWS CNI. Calico is one option the will provide better IP address management among other benefits that can reduce resource exhaustion in EKS.