Vanilla Kubernetes makes it easy to ship applications… and just as easy to introduce potentially dangerous misconfigurations and vulnerabilities into production. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll deploy a cloud native application on a pre-provisioned Welkin environment and experience what it’s like when the Kubernetes-based application platform helps you do the secure thing by default.

Welkin adds guardrails that prevent common “oops” moments from ever reaching production: for example, workloads can’t run as root, microservices need to be isolated with internal firewall rules, and resource needs need to be defined. These protections are enforced through a hardened Kubernetes setup and policy engines designed to eliminate high-impact security and misconfiguration mistakes.

Just as importantly, you won’t spend the workshop wiring up “day-2” tooling. You will utilize a production-ready set of Cloud Native tools to: store your application container images, scan them for vulnerabilities, as well as collect application metrics and logs automatically. Everything you need to deploy your application securely and confidently!

We’ll end with a structured feedback retro focused on developer experience: where the guardrails helped, where they surprised you, and what would make secure cloud-native delivery even smoother on Welkin.