RGS Rancher Rodeo Colorado Springs

• Date: June 23, 2026
• Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
• Location: The Summit Ballroom at The Antlers, A Wyndham Hotel (4 S Cascade Ave, Colorado Springs, CO 80903)
• Earn 5 CPEs: Receive a Certificate of Attendance (5 Contact Hours) to self-submit for IT certification credits
• Lunch will be provided!

Rancher Government Solutions Rodeos are free and in-depth workshops designed to give Infrastructure and DevSecOps teams, across the government, hands-on skills they need to deploy and manage Applications and Kubernetes with Rancher anywhere and everywhere.

The content will be delivered by technical experts from Rancher Government Solutions and aims to educate government teams interested in learning how to leverage cloud native solutions to increase development velocity and reduce operational challenges with Rancher.

During these hands-on workshops, our technical experts will provide an overview of Rancher Government Solutions, Kubernetes, and show how easily Rancher enables scalable, secure, and highly available workloads on any infrastructure with its fully open-source product stack.

Including government and security focused features such as DISA STIGS, CIS Benchmarks, FIPS 2 Compliance, RBAC Authentication, SELinux, and more!

• Kubernetes Concepts and Architecture
• Installation and Configuration of the Rancher Stack
• Rancher RKE2, Rancher Multi-Cluster Manager, Longhorn, NeuVector, and Fleet
• Understanding of the challenges within Kubernetes and the simplicity with Rancher
• Best practices with the Rancher Stack and solving the complexities of Infrastructure as Code, Security and Compliance, Application Deployment with GitOps, and Cluster Lifecycle Management

Attendees should have a basic working knowledge of containers and virtual machines. If you have an understanding of Kubernetes, that only helps!

Training sessions are taught using a browser-based interactive coding platform, known as HobbyFarm. This platform allows users to access virtualized resources through the browser. Each user will have terminal access to their own set of virtual machines, while following prepared learning courses and scenarios. Access will be provided at the Rodeo.

Be sure to bring a personal laptop (not employer-issued) that can access the outside web and our training platform.

Rancher Government Solutions is specifically designed to address the unique security and operational needs of the U.S. Government and military as it relates to application modernization, containers, and Kubernetes.

Rancher is a complete open-source software stack for teams adopting containers. It addresses the operational and security challenges of managing multiple Kubernetes clusters at scale while providing DevOps teams with integrated tools for running containerized workloads.

Rancher Government supports all Rancher products with U.S. based American citizens with the highest security clearances who are currently supporting programs across the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and civilian agencies.

Info: - Rodeo Objectives and Outcomes
- Rancher Government Solutions Overview
- Container and Kubernetes Concepts

Info: Rancher Kubernetes (RKE2), Rancher Multi-Cluster Manager, Longhorn, NeuVector, and Fleet

Info: - Exploring and Managing clusters with the Rancher Multi-Cluster Manager and best practices with Longhorn (Storage) and NeuVector (Security)
- Configuring and Deploying Applications from the Rancher Catalog and with Rancher Fleet (GitOps)

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Antlers, A Wyndham Hotel, 4 South Cascade Avenue, Colorado Springs, United States

Concerts, fests, parties, meetups - all the happenings, one place.

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