Red Hat Ansible Sandboxing and Hack-a-thon with TVAR

Please join TVAR Solutions and Red Hat for a 2-day Ansible Sandboxing and Hack-a-thon.

Thursday, April 30

Agenda:

-We will be doing a Sandbox for training and experimentation with the Ansible Automation platform.

-Review a Demo and use cases for ServiceNow and other ITSM automation; focused on using Ansible Auotmation in conjunction with an ITMS tool.

-Discuss getting started with Network Automation.  The focus will be on Ansible automation for routers, switches, and firewalls.

Friday, May 1

Agenda:

-Plan and review the continuation of the previous day’s lab activities, focusing on NASA-specific use cases, with Cisco, Fortinet and other technologies.

We hope you can join us! Please register below.

Questions? Contact paul.beilke@tvarsolutions.com

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Please join the TVAR and Dell teams for a networking event to kick of Government End of Fiscal Year! The TVAR team will receive an update on the Dell Storage Portfolio for Gov FY26. We will have refreshments and appetizers. Please register below and we hope to see you there.

When:

Tuesday, August 26th

5:00-7:00 PM

Where:

Patsy’s American

8051 Leesburg Pike

Vienna, VA 22182

*please meet in the back bar

Questions? 
Lauren Baird
lauren.baird@tvarsolutions.com 

Please join the TVAR and Dell teams for Happy Hour while at HIMSS! We will have refreshments and appetizers. Please register below and we hope to see you there!

When:

Wednesday, March 5th

4:00-6:00 PM

Where:

Rockhouse

Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas

3377 S Las Vegas Blvd

Las Vegas, NV 89109

Questions? 
Lauren Baird
lauren.baird@tvarsolutions.com 

Join us to kick off the excitement of the NCAA’s Men’s Basketball Tournament!

Connect with top industry partners over drinks and heavy appetizers. Space is limited, so please register below to reserve your spot.

When:

Thursday, March 19th

3:00-6:00 PM

Where:

Solace Outpost

444 West Broad Street
Falls Church, Virginia 22046

Parking:

There is a parking garage to the left of the entrance of Solace. Look for the blue Parking Sign to direct you. Once parked, please use the retail elevators in the garage. There are also spots around the venue (street parking, small lot near the garage, etc)

Questions? 

Contact Lauren Baird, lauren.baird@tvarsolutions.com

The Dell DCS Healthcare & FSI Teams are invited to join TVAR for a night of networking, planning and music! We will have a networking opportunity prior to the Straight No Chaser holiday show. We hope you can join us.

Tickets will be transferred electronically via Ticketmaster. Please register with your Ticketmaster email address!

When:

Thursday, December 5th

7:30 PM

Where:

The Theater at MGM National Harbor

 101 MGM National Ave

Oxon Hill, MD 20745

Questions? 
Lauren Baird
lauren.baird@tvarsolutions.com 

Please join TVAR for networking at Patsy’s in Tysons! Our local team will be in attendance and we’d love for you to join us.

When:

Thursday, August 29th

4:00-7:00 PM ET

*Back bar area*

Where:

Patsy’s American

8051 Leesburg Pike

Vienna, VA 22182

Questions? 
Lauren Baird
lauren.baird@tvarsolutions.com 

Please join TVAR for dinner and networking! We would love for you to join us to do some account planning.

When:

Tuesday, December 3rd

6:00-9:00 PM ET

Where:

The Palm

1750 Tysons Blvd

Tysons, VA 22102

Questions? 
Lauren Baird
lauren.baird@tvarsolutions.com 

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.

When: 

Tuesday, July 16th

11:00AM – 3PM ET

Where: 

Smartmouth Brewing Co.

313 32nd Street

Virginia Beach, VA 23451

*Please join us after the training for some networking!*

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!

The key topics and outcomes that will be covered at the Rancher Government Solutions Rodeos include:

• 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 Requirements

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.

Bring your own laptop, and having general awareness of Kubernetes and Linux would be helpful. Our workshop is hosted in AWS, so please ensure you won’t have issues accessing AWS from your machine and that connecting to the WiFi network will not be a problem.

Who We Are
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.

RGS 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, the Intelligence Community, and civilian agencies.

Please bring a personal laptop or Chromebook if you are able to. The demo environment is blocked on all government-issued devices.

Questions? 
Lauren Baird
lauren.baird@tvarsolutions.com 

We would like to invite the team out for a networking event. The TVAR team will be in town for Top Gun and we would enjoy connecting. Hope you can join us!

When: 

Wednesday, August 21sth

5:30-8:30 PM CT

Where: 

Punch Bowl Social

11310 Domain Dr

Suite 100

Austin, TX 78758

Questions? 
Lauren Baird
lauren.baird@tvarsolutions.com 

Please join TVAR for dinner and networking! We will have the majority of our team in town for training and would love for you to join us.

When: 

Tuesday, April 30th

6:00 – 8:00 PM CT

Where: 

Perry’s Steakhouse & Grille

11801 Domain Blvd

Austin, TX 78758

Questions? 
Lauren Baird
lauren.baird@tvarsolutions.com