Implementing Traffic Management, Security, and Observability with Istio
In the previous chapter, we covered site reliability engineering (SRE) and how it has helped manage production environments using DevOps practices. In this chapter, we’ll dive deep into a service mesh technology called Istio, which will help us implement SRE practices and manage our application better in production.
In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:
- Revisiting the Blog App
- Introduction to service mesh
- Introduction to Istio
- Understanding the Istio architecture
- Installing Istio
- Using Istio Ingress to allow traffic
- Securing your microservices using Istio
- Managing traffic with Istio
- Observing traffic and alerting with Istio
