An Introduction to Istio

“If it makes it easier for users to use on the frontend, it’s probably complex on the backend.”

This chapter will introduce you to Istio, a Service mesh add-on for Kubernetes. A Service mesh is a tool for Kubernetes that improves the management, security, and visibility of microservices in a cluster. It simplifies complex networking tasks by handling service-to-service communication, load balancing, and traffic routing outside the application code. Istio also enhances security with features like encryption, authentication, and authorization. It provides detailed metrics and monitoring, allowing developers to understand how their services are performing.

Istio is a large, complex system that provides benefits to your workloads by offering enhanced security, discovery, observability, traffic management, and more – all without requiring application developers to write modules or applications to handle each task...