Istio Service Mesh Workshop
Install Istio on a Kubernetes cluster and deploy three microservices. Experiment with monitoring, tracing, routing, and fault injection before trying advanced tasks with Egress, Kiali, and mTLS.
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Introduction to Istio
30 minutes | Beginner
Get familiar with Service Mesh and why you'd use it. Then learn how to install Istio on a Kubernetes (OpenShift) cluster.
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Deploy microservices with Istio
30 minutes | Beginner
Use Istio to deploy three microservices with Spring Boot and Vert.x.
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Monitoring and tracing with Istio
60 minutes | Intermediate
Learn about Istio’s out-of-the-box monitoring, custom metrics, and OpenTracing via Prometheus and Grafana.
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Simple routing with Istio
60 minutes | Intermediate
Discover how Istio can be used to control routes based on simple rules.
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Advanced RouteRules
60 minutes | Expert
Learn about Istio’s smart routing, access control, load balancing, and rate limiting.
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Fault injection with Istio
60 minutes | Expert
Understand failure scenarios of distributed computing by working through HTTP errors and network delays, applying chaos engineering to repair the environment.
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Circuit Breaker with Istio
30 minutes | Expert
Install Siege to stress test URLs, fail fast, and achieve the ultimate back-end resilience using retries, circuit breaker, and pool ejection.
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Egress with Istio
10 minutes | Intermediate
Use Egress routes to apply rules to how internal services interact with external APIs and services.
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Observing Istio with Kiali
15 minutes | Expert
Explore Kiali’s ability to give a big picture of the mesh and show the whole flow of requests and data.
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Mutual TLS with Istio
15 minutes | Expert
Create an Istio Gateway and VirtualService, then get a closer look at mutual TLS (mTLS) to learn its settings.