Platform Engineer
Multi-skilled engineers with responsibility for building, operating, connecting and securing clusters. Skillset expected: Kubernetes, Networking, and Security
Choose your way to explore Cilium
The Isovalent labs are the best set of resources to learn about the leading cloud networking platform Cilium. But with so many labs to choose from, it can be hard to know where to start! Here are various tracks to help on your learning journey, depending on your particular role
Cloud Network Engineer
Engineer with a networking background. Responsible for connecting clusters to the rest of the network using tools such as BGP or Egress Gateway or connecting clusters together.
1. Discovery: Cloud Network Engineer
15 minutes2. Getting Started with Cilium
30 minutes3. BGP
30 minutes4. Load Balancer IP Address Management
45 minutes5. Advanced BGP Features
30 minutes6. Cilium LoadBalancer IPAM and L2 Service Announcement
30 minutes7. Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium: Multicast
30 minutes8. Cluster Mesh
60 minutes9. Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium: Multi Networking
30 minutes10. IPv6
30 minutes11. Egress Gateway
20 minutes12. Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium: Connectivity Visibility
30 minutes
SecOps Engineer
Security Engineer responsible for securing the cluster (using Network Policies), ensuring confidentiality (encryption), integrity (mutual authentication) and connecting with existing firewalls (Egress Gateway).
1. Discovery: SecOps Engineer
15 minutes2. Getting Started with Cilium
30 minutes3. Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium: Network Policies
45 minutes4. Getting Started with Tetragon
30 minutes5. Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium: Security Visibility
20 minutes6. Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium: TLS Visibility
20 minutes7. Transparent Encryption
30 minutes8. Mutual Authentication with Cilium
45 minutes9. Host Firewall
30 minutes10. Egress Gateway
20 minutes11. Zero Trust
60 minutes
Platform Ops (Service Mesh)
Engineer who may have responsibilities for managing a Service Mesh. That would include ingress/gateway API, egress, encryption/mTLS and observability.
1. Getting Started with Cilium
30 minutes2. Ingress Controller
30 minutes3. Transparent Encryption
30 minutes4. Mutual Authentication with Cilium
45 minutes5. Gateway API
30 minutes6. Advanced Gateway API Use Cases
30 minutes7. Cilium Envoy L7 Proxy
60 minutes8. Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium: Connectivity Visibility
30 minutes9. Golden Signals with Hubble and Grafana
60 minutes
Cloud Architect
AWS/Azure/GCP cloud engineer responsible for managing, connecting and securing clusters. This learning track focuses on features that are particularly important to engineers using Cilium in cloud environments.
1. Getting Started with Cilium
30 minutes2. Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium: Network Policies
45 minutes3. Ingress Controller
30 minutes4. Transparent Encryption
30 minutes5. Mutual Authentication with Cilium
45 minutes6. Cluster Mesh
60 minutes7. IPv6
30 minutes8. Egress Gateway
20 minutes9. Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium: Connectivity Visibility
30 minutes