Introduction to the Istio service mesh, Kiali and Jaeger

If your team is working with Kubernetes or (micro) service-based architectures, they have probably heard the term service mesh. This is because a service-based architecture has its own set of challenges, which a service mesh can help solve. In this training module, we will introduce your team to the features, with practical hands-on exercises, of the most popular service mesh today: Istio. You will also get familiar with Kiali to observe mesh traffic and Jaeger for distributed tracing in a mesh.

Prerequisites

Basic Kubernetes understanding (similar to what you get with our Kubernetes fundamentals training module):

• Deployments
• Pods
• Services

After completing this training module, your team will be able to:

• Understand what a service mesh is and why you would want to use one
• Identify Istio’s main components in the control and data planes
• Route traffic with virtual services and destination rules
• Leverage Istio to do Blue/Green, Canary and Shadow deployments
• Understand Istio Ingress/Egress gateway controllers
• Route inbound/outbound traffic through Ingress/Egress gateways
• Route traffic to external services
• Secure communication between your services with mTLS
• Control service-to-service access with Istio
• Understand the telemetry Istio provides
• Visualize traffic in a mesh with Kiali and Jaeger.