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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

Introduction to Service Mesh

  • Challenges associated with managing microservices at scale
  • How service meshes address these challenges
  • Comparison of Istio with alternative service meshes (Linkerd, Consul)

Kubernetes Networking Basics

  • The core networking model in Kubernetes
  • Services, Ingress, and load balancing mechanisms
  • Constraints of native Kubernetes networking

Istio Features and Architecture

  • Control plane versus data plane
  • The function of Envoy sidecars
  • Key Istio components: Pilot, Citadel, Mixer (legacy), Istiod

Setting Up Istio on Kubernetes

  • Preparing a Kubernetes cluster for Istio deployment
  • Installing Istio using Helm and Istioctl
  • Confirming installation success and sidecar injection

Managing Traffic with Istio

  • Setting up routing, retries, and failover strategies
  • Implementing Blue/green and canary deployment strategies
  • Utilizing Istio Gateway for ingress traffic handling

Securing the Service Mesh with Istio

  • Using mutual TLS (mTLS) for service-to-service authentication
  • Defining authorization policies (RBAC and ABAC)
  • Applying Zero Trust architecture principles within Istio

Observability and Monitoring

  • Integrating Prometheus and Grafana with Istio
  • Performing distributed tracing with Jaeger and Zipkin
  • Interpreting metrics, logs, and traces

Combining Istio with Calico

  • Enforcing advanced network policies
  • Securing communication between pods
  • Best practices for deploying Istio alongside Calico

Troubleshooting and Best Practices

  • Addressing common issues in Istio environments
  • Debugging sidecar proxies effectively
  • Operational best practices for maintaining production service meshes

Conclusion and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Familiarity with networking fundamentals
  • Proficiency with the Linux command line
  • Understanding of containers and Kubernetes

Target Audience

  • Developers
  • Cloud architects
  • DevOps engineers
  • Network engineers
  • System administrators

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