Getting Started with Istio Service Mesh

Chapter 1:  Quick tour of Kubernetes 
Chapter Goal: The chapter is aimed to get started with basic of Kubernetes. This is getting started guide aimed to refresh K8s conceptsNo of pages 30
Sub -Topics1.Namespace, Node and Containers2.Deployment & Service
Chapter 2:  Introduction to Service Mesh
Chapter Goal: Helping reader understand what is the nedd of Service Mesh. This would also cover the Envoy proxy and the sidecar pattern .No of pages: 25
Sub - Topics1.Service Mesh ROI2.Side-car Architecture3.Envoy Proxy 
Chapter 3:  Installing Istio
Chapter Goal: The reader will setup the environment and get started with Istio. The concepts of control plane and data plane will help in understanding how Istio works. Explore the isto cli and deploy a sample service to the mesh.No of pages : 25
Sub - Topics: 1.Istio Architecture 2.working with istio-ctl
Chapter 4:  Istio Gateway
Chapter Goal: The reader will understand how to route traffic to a said service. No of pages: 20
Sub - Topics: 1.Ingress Resource2.Virtual Service3.Egress
Chapter  5: Service Deployment
Chapter Goal: The reader will practice the concept of blue green deployments. The reader will also practice canary deployment.No of pages: 15
Sub - Topics: 1.Routing to Specific Version2.Routing based on Headers
Chapter  6: Service Resiliency
Chapter Goal: Learn to work with features of connection pools and circuit breaker. No of pages: 30
Sub - Topics: 
1.Load balanced Service2.Retry & Timeout3.Circuit breaker & Connection pools4.Application Errors 
Chapter  7: Istio Pilot and Application Metrics
Chapter Goal: Work with Grafana and Prometheus to configure application alerting.No of pages: 20
Chapter  8: Monitoring, Logs and Request Tracing
Chapter Goal: Work with distributed tracing available in Istio.No of pages:

Rahul Sharma is a seasoned Java developer with over 14 years of industry experience. In his career, he has worked with companies of various sizes, from enterprises to start-ups. During this time he has developed and managed microservices on the cloud (AWS/GCE/DigitalOcean) using open source software. He is an open-source enthusiast and shares his experience at local meetups.  He is the co-author of Java Unit Testing with JUnit 5 (Apress, 2017).

 

Avinash Singh is an IIT-Kanpur alumnus with more than ten years of experience in architecture, design, and developing scalable and distributed cloud applications. He has hands-on experience in technologies such as AWS Cloud, J2EE, ROR, MySQL, MongoDB, Spring, and Hibernate. Avinash has a strong understanding of SOA and microservices architecture, with good handle on resource capacity planning.