Workshop

Isovalent Discovery Workshop: A Fast-Track to Cilium for Platform Engineers

Virtual

A hands-on workshop to give you a quick, profound insight

Isovalent empowers platform engineers to build secure, scalable, and observable Kubernetes platforms with Cilium and keeps clusters running smoothly. Whether your focus is Service Mesh, Ingress Routing, or Network Observability, Cilium has you covered.

In this short session, we’ start with a quick introduction to key concepts before diving into an interactive discovery lab, where you’ll get hands-on experience with:

  • Cilium Ingress Controller
  • Gateway API
  • Connectivity Visibility with Hubble
  • Golden Signals monitoring of your applications

The lab takes just 15 minutes, giving you valuable insights while keeping it short: no fluff—just practical, real-world learning. Finish the lab and earn a Credly badge! You can access the lab here.

Cilium is everywhere—but how can it help platform engineers like you keep clusters running smoothly? Isovalent to the rescue! In under 45 minutes, get a quick, hands-on overview of what Cilium has to offer. Watch this video to try it out and see it in action.

  • Raphaël Pinson, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

    Raphaël is a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer with Cloud Native networking and security specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium eBPF-based networking project. He works on Cilium, Hubble & Tetragon and the future of Cloud-Native networking & security using eBPF. An early adept of the DevOps principle, he has been a practitioner of Configuration Management and Agile principles in Operations for many years, with a special involvement in the Puppet and Terraform communities over the years.

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

    Nico Vibert is a Principal Technical Marketing Engineer at Isovalent, the company behind the open-source cloud-native solution Cilium. Prior to joining Isovalent, Nico worked in many different roles - operations and support, design and architecture, and technical pre-sales - at companies such as HashiCorp, VMware, and Cisco. In his current role, Nico focuses primarily on creating content to make networking a more approachable field and regularly speaks at events like KubeCon and Cisco Live. Nico has held over 15 networking certifications, including the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert CCIE (# 22990). Nico is the co-author of the "Cilium: Up and Running" O'Reilly book and is the Lead Subject Matter Expert on the Cilium Certified Associate (CCA) certification.

March 25, 2025