Istio Hands-On for Kubernetes

Fully revised and updated for 2021!

Istio is one of the most talked-about frameworks in recent years! If you've worked with Kubernetes before, then you'll want to learn Istio! With this hands-on, practical course, you'll be able to gain experience in running your own Istio Service Meshes.

This course is designed to be clear and understandable - and fun! But we also go into detail - you'll be learning how to use Istio in real production scenarios - and you'll be looking at the inner workings of Istio.

You can run this course on your own computer, using Minikube (8Gb of Host Ram required) - you don't need a cloud provider, although you can also run the course there - anywhere that you can run Kubernetes!

After a brief talk about what Istio is, we go straight into a hands-on demo, where you'll experience how Istio can solve difficult problems on live projects.

Then you'll find out the details of:

• Traffic Management

• Telemetry

• Visualisation (with Kiali)

• Distributed Tracing (with Jaeger)

• Using Grafana to monitor network traffic

• How to deploy canary releases

• How to do "Dark Releases"

• Istio VirtualServices and DestinationRules

• Load Balancing and Session Affinity

• Istio Gateways

• Resilience testing with Fault Injection

• Circuit Breaking/Outlier Detection

• Securing cluster traffic with Mutual TLS (mTLS)

The "learning curve" for Istio is steep - which is why I've designed this course to be as clear and understandable as possible, and I hope with the hands-on demos, you'll also have fun along the way. But most of all, Istio is an extremely powerful tool, and it's a great addition to your CV!