Summarizing What We Have Learned and the Next Steps
Throughout the book, you learned about and practiced various concepts of Service Mesh and how to apply them using Istio. It is strongly recommended that you practice the hands-on examples in each chapter. Don’t just limit yourself to the scenarios presented in this book but rather explore, tweak, and extend the examples and apply them to real-world problems you are facing in your organizations.
In this chapter, we will revise the concepts discussed in this book by implementing Istio for an Online Boutique application. It will be a good idea to look at scenarios presented in this chapter and try to implement them yourself before looking at code examples. I hope reading this last chapter provides you with more confidence in using Istio. We will go through the following topics in this chapter:
- Enforcing best practices using OPA Gatekeeper
- Applying the learnings of this book to a sample Online Boutique application...