Making Microservices Micro with Istio and Kubernetes

This course teaches learners how to simplify microservices management using Istio and Kubernetes. The learning outcomes include understanding how to configure microservices architecture effectively, implement service discovery, manage service metadata, make load balancing decisions, ensure network resiliency, enforce service policies, and trace service calls. The course covers the skills needed to work with Istio, an open-source service mesh framework, and Kubernetes. The teaching method involves a presentation by a Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform. The course is intended for individuals interested in optimizing microservices architecture and managing complex service configurations in a polyglot environment.