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Course Overview

In today's cloud-native landscape, microservices architectures have gained immense popularity due to their flexibility and scalability. However, managing microservices at scale can introduce challenges related to service-to-service communication, observability, security, and resiliency. These complexities often lead to issues such as increased network latency, lack of visibility into traffic, difficulty in implementing security measures consistently across services, and an increased risk of service failures and data breaches. 

This comprehensive Istio Service Mesh course is designed to address the challenges of managing microservices by teaching you how to harness the power of Istio to enhance the security, observability, and reliability of your applications. Through hands-on learning and practical examples, you will gain the knowledge and skills to deploy and configure Istio, leverage its traffic management capabilities, implement robust security mechanisms, and achieve seamless service communication across your Kubernetes clusters.  

By the end of this course, you will be equipped to confidently adopt Istio to transform your microservices architecture into a secure, resilient, and high-performing system, unlocking its full potential for your organization's success. Whether you are a developer, DevOps engineer, or Kubernetes enthusiast, this course will empower you with the expertise needed to navigate the complexities of microservices and take your cloud-native applications to the next level.

What You Will Learn

  • Understand key capabilities provided by Istio like Traffic Management, Observability, and Security.
  • Learn how to control Ingress Traffic using Gateway,  VirtualService, Destination rules.
  • Understand the basic architecture of Istio and Istio-Kubernetes interactions.
  • Gain knowledge on Istio control plane and data plane.
  • Visualise a cluster using Kali.
  • Observability - Automatic metrics, logs, and traces for traffic in your cluster.
  • Service-to-service communication, authentication, authorization, and encryption.
  • Fine grained traffic control with routing rules, retries, failover.

Program Curriculum

  • What is Proxy?
  • API Gateway Vs. Service Mesh
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council

  • About Envoy – Istio’s Data Plane
  • Components of Envoy
  • Comparison with Other Proxies
  • Envoy Proxy
  • Envoy Python Docker
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Installing Minikube
  • Installing Istio
  • Sidecar Injection
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Gateways
  • Istio – Fault Injection
  • Istio – Timeouts
  • Istio – Circuit Breaker
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • Observability
  • Kiali – Service Mesh Management
  • Jaeger – Distributed Tracing
  • Grafana – Visualize Metrics
  • Chapter 5 Quiz

  • Securing Microservice Communication
  • mTLS
  • Implement mTLS
  • Istio – Authorization
  • End User – Authn and Authz
  • Chapter 6 Quiz

  • Debugging Envoy and Istiod
  • Envoy Access Logs
  • Istio – Response Flags
  • Chapter 7 Quiz
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Instructor

Sunil Jacob

Sunil Jacob, currently working as Principal Development Software Engineer in Dev(Sec)Ops functional area. He comes with 16.5 years of IT experience. He was the runner-up of a national-level hackathon, conducted by TechGig Code Gladiators in 2017 for the theme DevOps. He has authored articles in tech blogs and associated with Manning for a live project course ‘Getting started with Kubernetes’. He is a certified Professional Cloud Architect (Google) and also a certified Kubernetes administrator. He has worked on different open-source code repositories like Gitlab and GitHub and implemented DevSecOps practices for organizations. His major area of work includes technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring solutions with Prometheus/Grafana.

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