In Istio in Action you will learn:
In Istio in Action you will learn:
Reduce the operational complexity of your microservices with an Istio-powered service mesh! Istio in Action shows you how to implement this powerful new architecture and move your application-networking concerns to a dedicated infrastructure layer. Non-functional concerns stay separate from your application, so your code is easier to understand, maintain, and adapt regardless of programming language.
In this practical guide, you’ll go hands-on with the full-featured Istio service mesh to manage microservices communication. Helpful diagrams, example configuration, and examples make it easy to understand how to control routing, secure container applications, and monitor network traffic.
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
Part 1. Understanding Istio
Chapter 1. Introducing the Istio service mesh
Chapter 2. First steps with Istio
Chapter 3. Istio’s data plane: The Envoy proxy
Part 2. Securing, observing, and controlling your service’s network traffic
Chapter 4. Istio gateways: Getting traffic into a cluster
Chapter 5. Traffic control: Fine-grained traffic routing
Chapter 6. Resilience: Solving application networking challenges
Chapter 7. Observability: Understanding the behavior of your services
Chapter 8. Observability: Visualizing network behavior with Grafana, Jaeger, and Kiali
Chapter 9. Securing microservice communication
Part 3. Istio day-2 operations
Chapter 10. Troubleshooting the data plane
Chapter 11. Performance-tuning the control plane
Part 4. Istio in your organization
Chapter 12. Scaling Istio in your organization
Chapter 13. Incorporating virtual machine workloads into the mesh
Chapter 14. Extending Istio on the request path
Appendix A. Customizing the Istio installation
Appendix B. Istio’s sidecar and its injection options
Appendix C. Istio security: SPIFFE
Appendix E. How the virtual machine is configured to join the mesh