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Managing and securing Microservices with Rancher, Istio, and NeuVector - Hands-on Workshop Manual

Managing and Securing microservices with Rancher, Istio, and Neuvector

This repository contains provide the lab exercise guide for a hands-on workshop to help audience to understand and explore the open source technologies in managing and securing microservices-based applications running on Kubernetes.

Open Source Technologies Used

Software	Version	Remarks
Rancher	2.6.4	Enterprise-grade Kubernetes Management Platform
RKE2	1.21.4	Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2 - with Kubernetes version 1.21
Prometheus/Grafana	19.0.3	Monitoring tools for Kubernetes
Istio	1.11.7	Service Mesh with Istio distributed as part of Rancher
Neuvector	5.0.0-b1	The industry's first open source full-lifecycle cloud native security platform for Kubernetes

Lab Exercises

• Access to the lab environment
• Exercise-01-Deploy Monitoring and Istio onto RKE2 cluster
• Exercise-02-Deploy Sample Bookinfo Microservices Application
• Exercise-03-Traffic Shaping with Service Mesh Canary Deployment
• Exercise-04-Visualize Service Mesh with Kiali
• Exercise-05-Explore Distributed Tracing with Jaeger
• Exercise-06-Explore NeuVector and how it secure microserivces

References

• Rancher Documentation
• Istio Documentation
• NeuVector Documentation