Ultimate Istio Bootcamp by School of Devops®
What you'll learn
- Setup Istio cluster on premise along with kubernetes
- Deploy canary releases in production and learn how to intelligently route traffic
- Simulate real world failures and traffic with fault injection, traffic mirroring
- Make services resilient without making application changes by utilising timeouts, retries and circuit breakers
- Do a zero downtime rolling deployment independant of the underlying infrastructure scaling
- Setup telemetry tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Service Graphs
Requirements
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes - Pods, Deployments, Services, Ingress etc.
- Working knowledge of Docker
- Google Cloud Account - Free Subscription to setup environment
Description
Embark on a transformative journey with the Ultimate Istio Bootcamp, designed to empower you with the skills and knowledge to revolutionize your microservices architecture using Istio, the leading service mesh platform.
In the modern landscape of cloud-native applications, managing the complexities of microservices can be a daunting task. Istio emerges as a game-changer, providing a powerful and flexible framework for seamlessly connecting, securing, and managing your microservices. This comprehensive bootcamp is tailored to help you master Istio and unlock its full potential.
Throughout this immersive course, you'll dive deep into the core concepts and features of Istio. We'll start by exploring the fundamentals of service mesh architecture and how Istio fits into the picture. You'll learn about the key components of Istio, such as the control plane and data plane, and understand how they work together to provide a robust and scalable infrastructure for your microservices.
As you progress through the bootcamp, you'll gain hands-on experience with Istio's powerful traffic management capabilities. You'll learn how to configure intelligent routing rules, implement traffic splitting and canary deployments, and ensure reliable communication between your services. We'll also cover advanced topics like fault injection and circuit breaking, enabling you to build resilient and fault-tolerant applications.
Security is a critical aspect of any microservices architecture, and Istio excels in this domain. In this course, you'll discover how to leverage Istio's security features to protect your services and data. You'll learn how to enable mutual TLS authentication, enforce access control policies, and secure service-to-service communication. We'll also explore how Istio integrates with external authentication and authorization systems to provide comprehensive security solutions.
Observability is key to understanding the behavior and performance of your microservices. With Istio, you'll gain deep insights into your application's metrics, logs, and traces. We'll cover how to configure and use Istio's monitoring and tracing capabilities, empowering you to quickly identify and troubleshoot issues, optimize performance, and make data-driven decisions.
Throughout the bootcamp, you'll work on real-world projects and use cases, giving you practical experience in implementing Istio in various scenarios. You'll learn best practices for deploying and managing Istio in production environments, including strategies for scaling, upgrading, and troubleshooting your service mesh.
By the end of this Ultimate Istio Bootcamp, you'll have a solid foundation in Istio and be well-equipped to tackle the challenges of modern microservices architectures. Whether you're a developer, DevOps engineer, or architect, this course will empower you to build highly scalable, secure, and observable applications using Istio.
Don't miss this opportunity to master Istio and take your microservices skills to the next level. Enroll now in the Ultimate Istio Bootcamp and unlock the full potential of your cloud-native applications!
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who is looking to deploy applications with Kubernetes and looking for advanced features
- Anyone who is curious about Istio and want to find out what it offers on top of Kubernertes features
- Devs writing micro services who want to understand how to make the applications resilient and fault tolerant
- Anyone who would like to deploy canary releases, use advanced routing and load balancing features missing in kubernetes
- Anyone who is looking for observability features such as monitoring, distributed tracing, service graphs etc.
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