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GrafanaCONline: Tanka: Declarative Dashboards for Declarative Clusters

Tanka is a powerful tool for managing Kubernetes resources using the Jsonnet language. Along with a demonstration of deploying Grafana to Kubernetes using Tanka, this session will cover the benefits of deploying your dashboards alongside your code, how to manage Kubernetes resources using Tanka and Jsonnet, and how to create dashboards using Grafonnet and deploy them with Tanka.

KMC - GitOps in a Hybrid Cloud, Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Setup

How do you make sure your clusters are up to date and running the right version of your releases and policies? Doing this by hand can be very hard and time consuming. GitOps helps to solve this issue by allowing you to operationalize your Git repos and ensure that what you have in Git is what is being deployed to your clusters regardless of where they are.

How to deploy an app to AWS: App automation and optimization

Hey there. Welcome to the fifth and final installment in our series on successfully deploying an app to AWS with the least effort. This week, we'll discuss things you need to worry about now that you've released, plus optimizing your app. Ok, so you've released your app. Congrats! However, we both know your work doesn't end here. You should continue improving your app, both on the end-user side and the back end.

Introducing Rancher Academy

Today we launched the Rancher Academy, our new free training portal. The first course is Certified Rancher Operator: Level 1, and in it you’ll learn exactly how to deploy Rancher and use it to deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters. This professional certification program is designed to help Kubernetes practitioners demonstrate their knowledge and competence with Kubernetes and Rancher – and to advance in their careers.

Network Security for D2iQ Konvoy

By default, pods are non-isolated; they accept traffic from any source. The D2iQ Konvoy solution to this security concern is Network Security Policy that lets developers control network access to their services. D2iQ Konvoy comes preconfigured with Network Security Policy using Project Calico which can be used to secure your clusters. This class will describe a few use cases for network policy and a live demo implementing each use case.

How to Import Kubernetes Labels as Tags | Datadog Tips & Tricks

In this video, you’ll learn how to turn Kubernetes node labels and pod labels into tags in Datadog in order to correlate metrics, traces, and logs back to Kubernetes deployments. Using labels for Kubernetes objects—such as pods or nodes—is key to organizing and making sense of your deployments. Datadog can automatically bring your Kubernetes labels from your clusters into the Datadog platform as tags, regardless of whether you’re using on-prem Kubernetes or a cloud-based service such as AKS, EKS, or GKE.

Welcome to the Rancher Academy!

Today we're launching the inaugural course of the new Rancher Academy: Certified Rancher Operator: Level 1. In this course you'll learn and demonstrate the skills to install Rancher, install downstream Kubernetes clusters, and interact with them from the perspective of a user and an operator. The course ends with a final assessment, and when you pass, you'll receive a certificate from Rancher Labs that will help you advance your career.