Learn how the Istio service mesh can turbo charge your Kubernetes career - with hands on, real world practicals
InstructorRichard Chesterwood
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Instruction includes visualizing cluster state and metrics using Kiali, Jaeger, and Grafana.
The curriculum covers practical scenarios such as Canary deployments, Dark Releases, and Fault Injection.
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These 4 complementary views highlight concrete, legible examples from the course presentation.
The Kiali dashboard displays a service graph visualizing traffic flow between microservices such as position-simulator, api-gateway, and fleetman-position-tracker within the default namespace.
The Kiali interface allows administrators to configure weighted routing by adjusting traffic distribution sliders between stable services and risky versions for canary deployments.
This interface visualizes distributed tracing data from Jaeger, mapping out service dependencies and response times across microservices in a Kubernetes cluster.
This Grafana dashboard visualizes Kubernetes network traffic metrics, including HTTP response codes and request durations, while confirming mutual TLS security enforcement.
The material lacks coverage of Istio's ambient mode and the newer Gateway API, which is increasingly used for resource management.
Some learners report excessive runtime caused by unscripted debugging and verbal deviations from the core technical topics.
The content aligns with the goal of teaching Kubernetes developers how to use Istio via local environments.