Master Istio: Service Mesh & Kubernetes Strategies Training

Istio Essentials: Ace Service Mesh for Modern Microservices, Advanced Traffic Management, Security, and Observability.

What you'll learn

The fundamentals of Istio and its role as a service mesh for microservices.

How to manage and control traffic between microservices using Istio's advanced routing features.

The importance of security in a service mesh and how to implement mutual TLS, authentication, and authorization policies.

Key observability techniques, including metrics collection, distributed tracing, and log aggregation in Istio.

The architecture of Istio, including its core components like Envoy, Pilot, and Mixer, and how they interact.

How to configure and manage Istio using ConfigMaps, CRDs, and the Istio control plane.

Advanced traffic management techniques like load balancing, failover, circuit breaking, and traffic mirroring.

Best practices for deploying and managing Istio in production environments, including multi-cluster deployments.

and much more

Requirements

Willingness or Interest to learn about Istio and it's essentials for Success.

Description

IMPORTANT NOTICE BEFORE YOU ENROLL:This course is not a replacement for the official materials you need for the certification exams. It is not endorsed by the certification vendor. You will not receive official study materials or an exam voucher as part of this course.In this course, you'll dive deep into Istio, a powerful service mesh designed to simplify and secure the management of microservices in modern cloud-native applications. The course begins by exploring what Istio is, why it's essential for managing microservices, and the key components of its architecture, such as Pilot, Mixer, and Envoy, which work together to handle service discovery, traffic management, and security.Istio is an open-source service mesh platform designed to simplify and manage the communication between microservices in distributed applications. It provides a way to control how services interact over the network, making it easier to manage complex microservice architectures.Istio achieves these functions by deploying a sidecar proxy (using Envoy) alongside each service. The sidecar intercepts all network communication, enabling control over traffic without requiring any changes to the actual service code. This makes Istio a powerful tool for managing microservices at scale in cloud-native environments.You'll gain a solid understanding of how Istio identifies and tracks services within the mesh, manages traffic routing, and enforces security policies, all while providing observability through built-in features like metrics, tracing, and logging. The course also covers critical concepts like mutual TLS, role-based access control (RBAC), and authorization policies, which help secure service-to-service communication in an Istio environment.Next, you'll explore advanced topics such as traffic management in depth, focusing on Envoy Proxy, virtual services, destination rules, load balancing, and canary deployments using traffic splitting and mirroring. The course also delves into how Istio handles external traffic through gateways and ingress resources, giving you full control over the flow of requests into your microservices.Additionally, the course addresses the management and configuration of Istio, covering essential configuration files, ConfigMaps, and custom resource definitions (CRDs). You'll learn how to deploy and manage Istio across multiple clusters, inject sidecar proxies into pods, and apply circuit-breaking patterns to improve the reliability of your services.Throughout the course, real-world use cases and best practices are emphasized, ensuring that you can confidently deploy and manage Istio in production environments. Whether you're looking to improve service reliability, enhance security, or streamline observability, this comprehensive course will equip you with the skills needed to fully harness the power of Istio in managing microservices at scale.Thank you

Overview

Section 1: Introduction to Istio

Lecture 1 What is Istio?

Lecture 2 The Need for Service Mesh

Lecture 3 Istio Architecture Overview

Section 2: Core Concepts of Istio

Lecture 4 Service Discovery in Istio

Lecture 5 Traffic Management in Istio

Lecture 6 Security in Istio

Lecture 7 Observability in Istio

Section 3: Traffic Management in Depth

Lecture 8 Understanding Envoy Proxy

Lecture 9 Virtual Services and Destination Rules

Lecture 10 Load Balancing and Failovers

Lecture 11 Traffic Splitting and Mirroring

Section 4: Security Features in Istio

Lecture 12 Mutual TLS

Lecture 13 Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

Lecture 14 Authentication Policies

Lecture 15 Authorization Policies

Section 5: Observability and Monitoring

Lecture 16 Metrics Collection in Istio

Lecture 17 Distributed Tracing in Istio

Lecture 18 Log Aggregation and Access Logs

Section 6: Configuring and Managing Istio

Lecture 19 Istio Control Plane Overview

Lecture 20 Understanding Istio Configurations

Lecture 21 Istio Gateway and Ingress

Section 7: Advanced Istio Concepts

Lecture 22 Istio Service Mesh Across Multiple Clusters

Lecture 23 Sidecar Proxy Injection

Lecture 24 Circuit Breaking in Istio

Section 8: Istio Use Cases and Best Practices

Lecture 25 Best Practices for Istio Deployment

Cloud Engineers and DevOps Professionals who want to streamline microservice management and enhance security in cloud-native environments.,Software Developers and Architects building microservice-based applications and looking to integrate service mesh solutions like Istio.,Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) responsible for monitoring and optimizing service performance and reliability in production.,IT Operations Teams seeking to improve service discovery, traffic routing, and observability across distributed systems.,Security Engineers focused on implementing secure communication between services using Istio’s security features like mutual TLS and RBAC.,Anyone New to Istio or service meshes who wants to gain hands-on experience managing microservices at scale.