Part 2: Istio in Practice

This part describes the application of Istio and how it is used to manage application traffic, provide resiliency to applications, and secure communication between microservices. With the help of numerous hands-on examples, you will learn about various Istio traffic management concepts and use them to perform application networking. The part concludes with a chapter on observability, in which you will read about how to observe the Service Mesh and use it to understand system behavior and the underlying causes behind faults so that you can confidently troubleshoot issues and analyze the effects of potential fixes.

This part contains the following chapters:

• Chapter 4, Managing Application Traffic
• Chapter 5, Managing Application Resiliency
• Chapter 6, Securing Microservices Communication
• Chapter 7, Service Mesh Observability