README.md

Introduction to Istio

A workshop teaching concepts of service mesh through the lens of Istio. Questions? See the community discussion forum.

[Free] Use the Cloud Native Playground to walk-through the labs in this workshop in a live Kubernetes environment - https://play.meshery.io

Prerequisites

• Prereq - Setup Docker, Kubernetes, and Meshery

Setup Istio

• Lab 1 - Setup Istio

Deploying an App onto the Mesh

• Lab 2 - Deploy the sample application BookInfo

Break (5 minutes)

Exposing Workloads with Ingress Gateway

• Lab 3 - Istio Ingress Gateway

Observability

• Lab 4 - Telemetry Add-ons

Break (5 minutes)

Traffic Control

• Lab 5 - Request Routing and Canary Testing
• Lab 6 - Fault Injection
• Lab 7 - Circuit Breaking

Security

• Lab 8 - Mutual TLS & Identity Verification

Wrap up / Q&A (10 minutes)

Authors

• Layer5 Authors Twitter, Slack

Workshop Resources

This workshop and other service mesh resources have been created by the Layer5 community. Visit our free Learning Paths for more courses.

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About Layer5

Layer5's cloud native application and infrastructure management software enables organizations to expect more from their infrastructure. We embrace developer-defined infrastructure. We empower engineer to change how they write applications, support operators in rethinking how they run modern infrastructure and enable product owners to regain full control over their product portfolio.

• Engage in Slack
• Follow on Twitter: @layer5, @mesheryio, @smp_spec
• Watch on YouTube, Follow on LinkedIn
• Discuss in the Community Forum.

License

This repository and site are available as open-source under the terms of the Apache 2.0 License.