Just Enough Istio to be Dangerous

Learn basics of istio and why you need a service mesh by practice

What you'll learn:

• Setup Istio cluster with Google Kubernetes Engine
• Configure and validate istio control plane along with the plugins
• Deploy canary releases in production and learn how to intelligently route traffic
• Inject fault to test the resiliency of the micro services application stack
• Do a zero downtime rolling deployment independant of the underlying infrastructure scaling

If you have been using Kubernetes, you must have heard of the brand new concept of service mesh. Istio service mesh is the new thing in town and a lot of folks are wondering what it is and whats the need of it when they are already using kubernetes.

This course would give you a quick understanding of what istio is, how it works and what features it offers on top of kubernetes that makes it talk of the town.