Service Mesh with Istio for Managers

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About this course

Equip managers with practical knowledge of service mesh with istio.

  • 7 lessons
  • 45 min
  • intermediate

What you'll learn

  • Explain what a service mesh is in plain terms and why the concept emerged alongside microservices and Kubernetes
  • Identify the operational and organizational pain points that motivate service mesh adoption
  • Articulate the difference between application-level and infrastructure-level concerns in inter-service communication
  • Describe the roles of the Istio control plane and data plane
  • Explain the concept of sidecar proxies and how traffic is intercepted
  • Recognize the operational responsibilities and resource implications of each architectural component

Finishing the course

  • 28 knowledge-check questions along the way, so you know the ideas stuck before you move on.
  • Watching is free and needs no account. Sign in to save your progress. Pass each lesson's quiz (60%+) to earn the certificate. Each certificate has its own public verification link to share, marked quiz-verified.