Overview:

Deploying microservices to Kubernetes (and other cloud-native platforms) is only easy in theory. The inherent complexity of distributed systems requires new techniques of observability, analysis and resilience. Service mesh is an infrastructure-based architectural pattern that makes these techniques possible in a smart, centralised way. 

In this workshop we’ll learn to use Istio service mesh for smart deployment of microservice systems onto a Kubernetes cluster. 

Things we’ll get our hands dirty with:

• building Docker images for our app
• deploying app versions to Kubernetes
• deploying and configuring Istio
• monitoring app performance with prometheus
• implementing the following deployment strategies:
  • dark launch
  • canary
  • traffic mirroring

Duration:

1 days (8 hours)

Target Audience

This course is for developers and IT operations teams who already use Docker and Kubernetes and wish to acquire practical understanding of the benefits and challenges of the service mesh pattern as implemented by Istio ecosystem.

Prerequisites

Basic experience building and running Docker containers. Basic Docker CLI knowledge. Basic Kubernetes usage experience. Prior experience in developing web applications and knowledge of Python will be helpful but is not required. Basic knowledge of Linux file system and network stack.