Istio Hands-On for Kubernetes

Updated for Istio 1.5 on April 3 2020!

Istio is one of the most talked-about frameworks in recent years! If you’ve worked with Kubernetes before, then you’ll want to learn Istio! With this hands-on, practical course, you’ll be able to gain experience in running your own Istio Service Meshes.

This course is designed to be clear and understandable – and fun! But we also go into detail – you’ll be learning how to use Istio in real production scenarios – and you’ll be looking at the inner workings of Istio.

You can run this course on your own computer, using Minikube (8Gb of Host Ram required) – you don’t need a cloud provider, although you can also run the course there – anywhere that you can run Kubernetes!

After a brief talk about what Istio is, we go straight into a hands-on demo, where you’ll experience how Istio can solve difficult problems on live projects.

Then you’ll find out the details of:

• Traffic Management
• Telemetry
• Visualisation (with Kiali)
• Distributed Tracing (with Jaeger)
• Using Grafana to monitor network traffic
• How to deploy canary releases
• How to do “Dark Releases”
• Istio VirtualServices and DestinationRules
• Load Balancing and Session Affinity
• Istio Gateways
• Resilience testing with Fault Injection
• Circuit Breaking/Outlier Detection
• Securing cluster traffic with Mutual TLS (mTLS)

The “learning curve” for Istio is steep – which is why I’ve designed this course to be as clear and understandable as possible, and I hope with the hands-on demos, you’ll also have fun along the way. But most of all, Istio is an extremely powerful tool, and it’s a great addition to your CV!