Istio Hands-On for Kubernetes

Learn how the Istio service mesh can turbo charge your Kubernetes career - with hands on, real world practicals

Created by: Richard Chesterwood
Software developer at VirtualPairProgrammers

Created by: Prageeth Warnak
Lead Software Architect

What Will I Learn?

• What are Service Meshes?
• What is Istio?
• How can I run Istio locally?
• What are Envoy Proxies?
• The Istio Control and Data Planes
• Visualising a Cluster using Kiali
• Distributed Tracing using Jaeger
• Monitoring metrics using Grafana
• What are Istio VirtualServices and DestinationRules?
• How to deploy Canaries (and what they are!)
• How to deploy "Dark Releases"
• Istio Gateways
• How to test the resilience of a system using Fault Injection

Requirements

• Understand standard Kubernetes
• Be familiar with pods, deployments and services from Kubernetes
• Be able to run a Kubernetes environment such as Minikube
• If using Minikube, 4gb is required and therefore an 8gb host machine (laptop/desktop) is required

Target audience

• Any Kubernetes developer who wants to learn what Istio can do for them
• Anyone who has tried to understand Istio but finds the standard documentation too confusing