Summary

As we conclude this chapter and wrap up this book, our journey has taken us through an array of diverse concepts and functionalities. While we’ve covered substantial ground in this chapter, it’s essential to recognize that Istio is a rich and multifaceted technology, making it a challenge to encompass all its intricacies within a single chapter.

This chapter marked our initiation into the world of service mesh, shedding light on its particular advantages in the context of microservices. Our exploration extended to various dimensions of Istio, beginning with installing Istio and extending our sample Blog App to utilize it using automatic sidecar injection. We then moved on to security, delving into the intricacies of securing ingress gateways with mTLS, enforcing strict mTLS among microservices, and harnessing authorization policies to manage traffic flows.

Our journey then led us to traffic management, where we introduced essential concepts such as destination...