Istio Service Mesh Course Overview
The 'Istio Service Mesh Course Overview' by Open Source equips developers, DevOps engineers, and system architects with essential skills to manage microservices efficiently. This course highlights the significance of Istio in enhancing security, observability, and traffic management, making it a vital resource for professionals aiming to streamline service communication in cloud-native applications.
Course outline & what you'll learn
- Definition and Benefits
Overview of Istio
- Components of Istio
- Control Plane vs Data Plane
- Envoy Proxy Overview
- Prerequisites and Environment Setup
- Installing Istio on Kubernetes
- Configuration Best Practices
- Routing and Load Balancing
- Traffic Shifting and Mirroring
- Fault Injection and Resilience
- Mutual TLS and Authentication
- Authorization Policies
- Secure Gateway Configuration
- Metrics Collection with Prometheus
- Distributed Tracing with Jaeger
- Logging and Visualization with Grafana
- Service Discovery
- Inter-Service Communication Patterns
- Protocol Handling (HTTP, gRPC, TCP)
- Defining and Enforcing Policies
- Rate Limiting and Quotas
- Access Control Lists
- Virtual Services and Destination Rules
- Sidecar Injection Techniques
- Integration with Other Tools
- Real-world Scenarios and Case Studies
- Common Pitfalls and Troubleshooting Tips
- Review of Key Concepts
- Resources for Further Learning
- Certification and Career Opportunities
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