Istio Service Mesh – Hands on primer

Details
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.

Istio Service Mesh – Hands on primer