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Kubernetes: Service Mesh with Istio

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Overview

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Learn how to use Istio, a service mesh technology, in a Kubernetes environment to address some of the biggest issues with building microservice-based distributed software systems.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Automated service mesh with Istio
  • What you should know
  • Istio, Kubernetes, and microservices
1. Getting Meshed with Istio
  • Installing Istio
  • Injecting Istio into a microservice
  • Verifying that Istio is meshing
  • Converting to proxy auto-injection
2. Traffic Routing and Deployment
  • Ingress gateways and virtual services
  • Configuring rules to link specific labels
  • Creating advanced route rules with Istio
  • Adjusting Istio load-balancing ratios
  • Modifying routes for Canary deployments
  • Challenge: Testing a new release
  • Solution: Testing a new release
3. Mutual TLS Endpoint Security
  • Establishing MTLS credentials
  • Connecting to non-MTLS services
  • Getting into the MTLS mesh
4. Tracing Communications
  • Connecting Istio to OpenTracing
  • Following a multi-service path
  • Understanding request latencies
5. Improving Microservice Robustness
  • Injecting faults into service response
  • Force aborts in specific applications
  • Mirroring connections
  • Circuit breaker tests via timeouts
  • Challenge: Add a random failure
  • Solution: Review response injection
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Robert Starmer

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