The Istio course provides practical knowledge of Istio Service Mesh and its role in managing communication between microservices in Kubernetes environments. The training starts with service mesh fundamentals and progresses to advanced Istio concepts such as traffic routing, ingress gateways, load balancing, fault injection, observability, security policies, and troubleshooting.
Prerequisites
- Basic Linux command-line knowledge
- Basic understanding of Docker containers
- Familiarity with Kubernetes fundamentals
- Basic networking concepts
- Understanding of microservices architecture
What Will You Learn
- Istio Service Mesh architecture and components
- Installing and configuring Istio in Kubernetes
- Working with the Envoy sidecar proxy
- Traffic management and routing rules
- Load balancing and circuit breaking
- Ingress gateway configuration
- Canary and blue-green deployments
- Mutual TLS (mTLS) implementation
- Authentication and authorization policies
- Observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and Kiali
- Logging, metrics, and distributed tracing
- Fault injection and resiliency testing
- Production deployment best practices
- Troubleshooting and debugging Istio services
- Multi-cluster service mesh concepts
Who Should Enroll
- DevOps Engineers
- Kubernetes Administrators
- Cloud Engineers
- Site Reliability Engineers (SREs)
- Platform Engineers
- Infrastructure Engineers
- Microservices Developers
- Cloud-Native Application Developers