Book #18 - Istio in Action

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

Friday evenings - 7:00 pm pacific time

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