Istio Service Mesh – Hands on primer

The term service mesh is used to describe the network of microservices that make up such applications and the interactions between them. As a service mesh grows in size and complexity, it can become harder to understand and manage. Its requirements can include discovery, load balancing, failure recovery, metrics, and monitoring. A service mesh also often has more complex operational requirements, like A/B testing, canary releases, rate limiting, access control, and end-to-end authentication.

Istio provides behavioral insights and operational control over the service mesh as a whole, offering a complete solution to satisfy the diverse requirements of microservice applications.

This meetup is the first in a series of 2 Meetups with the topic Istio Service Mesh: Hands on Primer and the Hands on Advanced, which will be announced later – so stay tuned.

This meetup will let you install an Istio Service Mesh and let you work with it, the examples BookInfo and HttpBin will be used for this initial hands on session.

You must bring your laptop and have a few things would be helpful for you to have installed before you attend the Meetup, these are:

• kubectl
  https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl/#install-kubectl
• helm
  https://docs.helm.sh/using_helm/#install-helm
• OCI CLI (you will get an Oracle Cloud Account prior to the meetup)
  https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/iaas/Content/API/SDKDocs/cliinstall.htm

Create 2 set of keys

• API Key https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/iaas/Content/API/Concepts/apisigningkey.htm#How
• SSL Key
  https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/iaas/compute-iaas-cloud/stcsg/generating-ssh-key-pair.html

We are looking forward to seeing you and work with Istio together with you.