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 including):

• 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.

Empower your entire team with new skills

Contact us to plan this training just for your team.