Workshop objectives

Understand the capabilities of Istio Service Mesh technology to manage, secure and observe container-based solutions in a Kubernetes based environment.

You should be able to by the end of this workshop to:

• Understand service mesh and the capabilities it offers to manage microservices.
• Understand the technology solution (Istio) high level architecture and components.
• Install Istio service mesh on the top of a Kubernetes cluster.
• Interact with service mesh using istioctl command line tool.
• Manage microservices behaviour using Istio.
• Use Istio dashboards to monitor and debug microservices.
• Debugging microservices running within the mesh network.