Tigera: From Reference Architecture to Production: A Kubernetes Workshop

Your team runs Kubernetes in production. You have clusters, workloads, and traffic flowing. But how much of your platform engineering time goes to maintaining the infrastructure between your tools — re-integrating after upgrades, synchronizing policies across a CNI, a service mesh, an ingress controller, and an observability stack that were never designed to work together?

That operational overhead is the integration tax, and it grows with every cluster you add.

This workshop walks you through a production reference architecture for Kubernetes networking, security, and observability — and then puts you in the driver’s seat. You will work through real scenarios covering multi-cluster connectivity with cluster mesh, egress gateway configuration for per-tenant IP identity, tiered network policy for microsegmentation with separation of duties, Gateway API migration for modern ingress traffic management, and unified observability across clusters and workload types.

Each scenario maps directly to the maturity assessments in our reference architecture whitepaper, so you will leave knowing exactly where your environment stands today and what to prioritize next.