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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.

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 e-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 the 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 e-book are created. Both video course and the 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.

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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.

New videos are added weekly as I am completing them and they will cover all the topics from the book.

7:15

Installing Minikube

7:33

Installing Istio

17:11

Gateways and Virtual Services

14:17

Basic Traffic Splitting

New videos coming in February 2020:

Advanced Traffic Splitting
Traffic Mirroring

Additional videos, added on a weekly basis:

Service Resiliency
Failure Injection
Monitoring: Prometheus
Monitoring: Grafana
Observability with Kiali
Distributed Tracing with Jaeger
Security
Practical Istio - pack of 8 videos showcasing practical scenarios

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.

Christian W.

Platform architect

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THE E-BOOK

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About the Author

Hi! I am Peter Jausovec. I am a software engineer with more than a decade of experience in the field of software development and tech. In recent years I've been focusing on developing distributed systems and cloud-native solutions using Docker, Kubernetes, and Istio. I've delivered talks and workshops on Istio, Kubernetes and microservices around the world. You can check out the list of my previous and upcoming talks and workshops.

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the e-book format?

The ebook is available in the PDF, ePub and Mobi format. You can choose to download one or all formats.

How about the video format?

All videos are uploaded in MP4. You can download the videos and watch them on offline or stream them from Gumroad.

Can I get Learn Istio Service Mesh for my entire team?

Of course! Check out the team pricing options.

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Will the material be updated?

Yes! Things are changing fast and the book and other materials will be updated periodically. You will receive all updates automatically as soon as they are available.

What if I don't like it?

If you really don't like it, email me at hello@learnistio.com and I will refund you in full.