Intro to Istio for Operations
Master Istio fundamentals for operational excellence: deploy, manage, secure, and observe your microservices with confidence.
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Istio Fundamentals and Architecture
Unit 1: Service Mesh Concepts
What is a Service Mesh?
Benefits of Istio
Service Mesh Alternatives
Unit 2: Istio Architecture Deep Dive
Istio's Architecture
Envoy Proxy Explained
Istiod: The Brains
Unit 3: Data and Control Planes
Data Plane vs Control Plane
Control Plane Details
Data Plane Details
Unit 4: Key Istio Concepts
Service Discovery
Istio Installation and Deployment in Kubernetes
Unit 1: Preparing Your Kubernetes Cluster
Cluster Compatibility
Installing istioctl
Namespace Considerations
Unit 2: Installing and Verifying Istio
Istio Installation
Verifying Installation
Istio Profiles
Unit 3: Namespace Injection and Deployment Models
Auto-Injection
Manual Injection
Deployment Models
Uninstalling Istio
Traffic Management with Istio
Unit 1: Virtual Services and Destination Rules
Traffic Management Intro
Virtual Services Deep Dive
Destination Rules Explained
VS and DR in Action
Unit 2: Advanced Traffic Management
Load Balancing Strategies
Timeouts and Retries
Traffic Shifting Intro
Traffic Shifting in Practice
Gateways: Ingress Control
Gateways: Egress Control
Security and Observability
Unit 1: Securing Your Mesh with Istio
Intro to mTLS
Enabling mTLS
Authorization Policies
Unit 2: Observability: Metrics, Tracing, and Logging
Istio's Observability
Kiali: Visualizing the Mesh
Prometheus & Grafana
Distributed Tracing
Accessing Istio Logs
Unit 3: Troubleshooting Istio
Common Issues
Debugging Traffic