Service Mesh with Istio Fundamentals

About this course

Learn the essential concepts and foundations of service mesh with istio.

• 5 lessons
• 30 min
• beginner

What you'll learn

• Identify the networking and observability limitations of default Kubernetes service-to-service communication
• Define what a service mesh is and articulate the problems it is designed to solve
• Explain the sidecar proxy pattern and how it differs from application-embedded networking logic
• Diagram the major Istio components and describe the responsibility of each
• Explain how sidecar injection works and what happens to a pod's network namespace
• Describe how configuration flows from the control plane to the data plane proxies

Finishing the course

• 20 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.

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