Istio in Action
by Christian E. Posta and Rinor Maloku - MEAP V12

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We decided to end with Chapter 8 in the MEAP and move on to the Manning LiveProject tutorial on Istio starting October 1

Chapters 7 & 8
Observability
September 17, 2021

Presenter

What is observability?

Amish

Exploring Istio metrics

Amish

Scraping Istio Metrics with Prometheus

Amish

Customizing Istio’s standard metrics

Amish

Using Grafana to visualize Istio service and control-plane metrics

Casey

Distributed tracing

Casey

Visualization with Kiali

Casey

Chapter 6
Resilience: solving application-networking challenges

September 10, 2021

Presenter

Building resilience into the application

Amish

Client-side load balancing

Amish

Locality aware load balancing

Amish

Transparent timeouts and retries

Casey

Circuit breaking with Istio

Casey

Chapter 5
Traffic control: fine-grained traffic routing

August 27, 2021


Reducing the risk of deploying new code

Amish

Routing requests with Istio

Amish

Traffic shifting

Casey

Lowering risk even further: Traffic mirroring

Casey

Routing to services outside your cluster by using Istio’s service discovery

Casey

Chapter 4
Istio Gateway: getting traffic into your cluster

August 20, 2021

Presenter

4.1 Traffic ingress concepts

Amish

4.2 Istio Ingress Gateway

Amish

4.3 Securing Gateway traffic

Amish

4.4 TCP traffic

Casey

4.5 Operational Tips

Casey

Chapter 3
Istio's Data Plane: Envoy Proxy

July 23, 2021

Presenter

What is Envoy Proxy

Casey

Configuring Envoy

Casey

Envoy in action

Amish

How Envoy fits with Istio

Amish


Chapter 2
First Steps With Istio

July 16, 2021

Presenter

Deploying Istio on Kubernetes

Casey

Getting to know the Istio control plane

Amish

Deploy your first application in the service mesh

Amish

Exploring the power of Istio with resilience, observability, and traffic control

Casey