About The Technology
Offload complex microservice communication layer challenges to Istio! The industry-standard Istio service mesh radically simplifies security, routing, observability, and other service-to-service communication challenges. With Istio, you use a straightforward declarative configuration style to establish application-level network policies. By separating communication from business logic, your services are easier to write, maintain, and modify.
About the Book
Istio in Action teaches you how to implement an Istio-based service mesh that can handle complex routing scenarios, traffic encryption, authorization, and other common network-related tasks. You'll start by defining a basic service mesh and exploring the data plane with Istio’s service proxy, Envoy. Then, you'll dive into core topics like traffic routing and visualization and service-to-service authentication, as you expand your service mesh to workloads on multiple clusters and legacy VMs.
What's inside
Comprehensive coverage of Istio resources
Practical examples to showcase service mesh capabilities
Implementation of multi-cluster service meshes
How to extend Istio with WebAssembly
Traffic routing and observability
VM integration into the mesh
About the Reader
For developers, architects, and operations engineers.
About the Author
Christian Posta is a well-known architect, speaker, and contributor. Rinor Maloku is an engineer at Solo.io working on application networking solutions.
Table Of Contents
PART 1 UNDERSTANDING ISTIO
1 Introducing the Istio service mesh
2 First steps with Istio
3 Istio's data plane: The Envoy proxy
PART 2 SECURING, OBSERVING, AND CONTROLLING YOUR SERVICE’S NETWORK TRAFFIC
4 Istio gateways: Getting traffic into a cluster
5 Traffic control: Fine-grained traffic routing
6 Resilience: Solving application networking challenges
7 Observability: Understanding the behavior of your services
8 Observability: Visualizing network behavior with Grafana, Jaeger, and Kiali
9 Securing microservice communication
PART 3 ISTIO DAY-2 OPERATIONS
10 Troubleshooting the data plane
11 Performance-tuning the control plane
PART 4 ISTIO IN YOUR ORGANIZATION
12 Scaling Istio in your organization
13 Incorporating virtual machine workloads into the mesh
14 Extending Istio on the request path
About the Author
Christian Posta (@christianposta) is VP, Global Field CTO at Solo.io. He is the author of Istio in Action as well as many other books on cloud-native architecture and is well known in the cloud-native community for being a speaker, blogger ( and contributor to various open-source projects in the service mesh and cloud-native ecosystem (Istio, Kubernetes, et. al.).
Rinor Maloku (@rinormaloku) is an engineer at Solo.io, where he consults clients adopting application networking solutions, such as service meshes. Previously, he worked at Red Hat, where he built middleware software that enabled teams to ensure the high availability of their services.
