Service Mesh with Istio Fundamentals

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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.