Calico Cloud Demo Workshop 🚀

Welcome to the Calico Cloud Demo Workshop — your hands-on guide to experiencing enterprise-grade Kubernetes security and observability.

With this workshop, you’ll learn how Calico Cloud helps teams:

• Enforce Zero Trust microsegmentation with fine-grained policies
• Block known malicious traffic using threat intelligence feeds
• Gain real-time visibility into workloads, flows, and dependencies
• Simplify compliance at scale with policy tiers and audit-ready guardrails
• Empower DevOps and Security teams to ship faster, safer, and with confidence

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🛠️ What You’ll Build

By the end of this workshop, you will:

• Connect your Kubernetes cluster to Calico Cloud
• Deploy three demo applications:
  • Online Boutique 🛍️ — modern e-commerce microservices app
  • YaoBank 🏦 — classic 3-tier banking system
  • Bookinfo 📚 — product page with supporting services
• Expose them via the NGINX Ingress Controller
• Secure traffic flows using Calico tiers and network policies (security → platform → application → appsec)

This journey shows both business value (compliance, Zero Trust, visibility) and technical depth (eBPF data plane, policy hierarchy, observability).

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📖 Workshop Modules

1. 01 — Prerequisites
2. 02 — Connect to Calico Cloud
3. 03 — Deploy Applications
4. 04 — Deploy NGINX Ingress Controller
5. 05 — Apply Network Policies with Calico

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Knowledge Hub 📚

After completing the modules, explore the Knowledge Hub for deeper context on the Calico Cloud features you just used.
Each topic includes a short explanation and a link to the official documentation for deeper dives.

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🔐 Microsegmentation

Learn how to isolate workloads and restrict traffic flows with fine-grained network policies.
Read more →

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👀 Observability

Visualize traffic with Service Graph, Flow Visualizer, and Policy Board. Gain deep insights into workloads and identify misconfigurations in real-time.
Read more →

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🛡️ Threat Defense

Use Calico Cloud’s threat feeds, DNS controls, and anomaly detection to block malicious IPs and secure your workloads against evolving attacks.
Read more →

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🧭 Zero Trust with Tiers & Policies

Implement Zero Trust security by layering policies across tiers (security → platform → application → appsec). Ensure every workload communicates only as intended.
Read more →

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👉 Each page contains a concise overview plus a link to the official Tigera Docs for complete details.