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"Security, monitoring and traffic management features, transparent to your services."
Managing complex applications in production require the operators to have more visibility into different portions of the application, specifically the communication between different services.
Have you wondered what is service mesh? Service meshes are becoming popular in helping operators gain visibility into service communication and to manage security, traffic and other aspects of the service communication.
The Learn Istio Service Mesh video course and Istio book help you understand what service mesh is about and give you a bunch of practical examples on how to use it.
Focused on the practical examples.
There are numerous articles and tutorials out there that focus more on the theoretical knowledge and high-level overviews of service meshes.
In the past years, I traveled around the world and delivered numerous talks and workshops on Kubernetes, cloud-native development and Istio.
One feedback was in common with all attendees: they enjoyed the practical examples as it was easier to understand different scenarios and see how they could use them in their applications.
That is how the Learn Istio Service Mesh video course and Istio book are created. The Istio video course and Istio service mesh book focus on practical scenarios and give you examples (with full source code) on how to get the best out of the Istio service mesh.
Istio book and video course answers questions such as:
- What is Istio service mesh and how does it work?
- How do I get started with Istio?
- When to use Istio service mesh?
- How to monitor services using Grafana?
- How to route traffic to different services?
- Can I use sticky sessions and session affinity?
... and much more.
Istio is probably one of the most important new open-source projects out there right now.
What's inside?
Everything you need to get started and get proficient with Istio service mesh.
The E-Book
A book in PDF, Mobi and ePub formats with 7 chapters and more than 200 pages filled with detailed explanations, diagrams and code.
The book explains basic concepts you need to understand to start using the Istio service mesh. I followed a similar style of writting as I do in my blog posts - focusing on practical knowledge and showing the readers how to do something.
Check out the full table of contents
The book is being frequently updated - since the initial release it has grown 20+ pages, filled with new scenarios and updated instructions.
The Video Course
You will learn a ton of stuff from the book, but sometimes it's better to watch a video and see how things are done in practice.
Traffic Mirroring (you can find more videos on my YouTube channel)
With more than 2 hours of video content you will learn how to install Istio service mesh, route traffic, observe microservices with Grafana, Jaeger and Kiali, configure circuit breakers and more.
The Cheatsheets
It's not practical to search through a book if you forgot how a syntax for VirtualService looks like or how to set timeouts.
For that reason, the complete package includes a set of following cheatsheets that you can use to get an overview of most popular Istio custom resources:
- Traffic splitting
- Service resiliency
- Fault injection
- Redirects and rewrites
- Sidecar resource
Each cheatsheet explains the resource and provides a practical example on how to use it. In the appendix of the book, you will also find a multi-page Kubernetes CLI (kubectl) cheatsheet.
Full source code
You will also find full source code for all examples used in the book. The examples from the book are implemented with Javascript (Node.js) and Golang.
- Hello web and greeter services (Node.js)
- Movie web accessing external service (themoviedb.org) (Node.js)
- Sticky sessions example (Golang)
- Customer web frontend and backend using gRPC (Golang and Node.js)
I have been working with Istio for the last two months and just got this book. I read it in two days, it's well written, easy to understand and a great way to start with Istio.
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THE COMPLETE PACKAGE
- Instructional videos to download and stream
- The 200+ page book in PDF, Mobi and ePub format
- Kubernetes and Istio YAML files
- Istio resource cheatsheets in PDF
- All source code in Golang and Javascript
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THE ISTIO BOOK
- The 200+ page book in PDF, Mobi and ePub format
- Kubernetes and Istio YAML files
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