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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Introduction to Service Mesh Concepts
- Challenges associated with managing microservices at scale
- Problems addressed by a service mesh architecture
- Comparison of Istio with alternative service meshes (Linkerd, Consul)
Fundamentals of Kubernetes Networking
- The core networking model in Kubernetes
- Services, Ingress, and load balancing mechanisms
- Constraints of native Kubernetes networking
Istio Capabilities and Architecture
- Control plane versus data plane responsibilities
- The function of Envoy sidecars
- Primary Istio components: Pilot, Citadel, Mixer (legacy), Istiod
Installing Istio on Kubernetes
- Preparing a Kubernetes cluster for Istio deployment
- Deploying Istio using Helm and Istioctl
- Validating the installation and sidecar injection
Managing Traffic with Istio
- Setting up routing, retries, and failover mechanisms
- Implementing Blue/green and canary deployments
- Utilizing the Istio Gateway for ingress traffic
Enhancing Security with Istio
- Mutual TLS (mTLS) for inter-service authentication
- Authorization policies (RBAC and ABAC)
- Applying Zero Trust architecture within Istio
Observability and Monitoring Strategies
- Integrating Prometheus and Grafana with Istio
- Distributed tracing using Jaeger and Zipkin
- Analysis of metrics, logs, and traces
Integrating Istio with Calico
- Enforcing advanced network policies
- Securing communication between pods
- Best practices for deployments combining Istio and Calico
Troubleshooting and Operational Best Practices
- Common challenges in Istio deployments
- Debugging sidecar proxy issues
- Operational guidelines for production-grade service meshes
Conclusion and Future Steps
Requirements
- Familiarity with networking concepts
- Proficiency with the Linux command line
- Proficiency in containers and Kubernetes
Target Audience
- Developers
- Cloud architects
- DevOps engineers
- Network engineers
- System administrators
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