Summary

I hope this book has provided you with a good insight into Istio. Chapters 1 to 3 set the context on why Service Mesh is needed and how Istio the control and data planes operate. The information in these three chapters is important to appreciate Istio and to build an understanding of Istio architecture. Chapters 4 to 6 then provided details on how to use Istio for building the application network that we discussed in the earlier chapters.

Then, in Chapter 7, you learned about observability and how Istio provides integration into various observation tools, as the next steps you should explore integration with other observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog. Following that, Chapter 8 showed practices on how to deploy Istio across multiple Kubernetes clusters, which should have given you confidence on how to install Istio in production environments. Chapter 9 then provided details on how Istio can be extended using WebAssembly and its applications, while Chapter 10...