Part 3: Scaling, Extending,and Optimizing

This part takes you into advanced topics of Istio. You will read about various architectures for deploying Istio to production environments. You will also explore various options to extend the Istio data plane and learn why it is a very useful and powerful feature of Istio. Istio provides great flexibility for virtual machine-based workloads so, in this part, you will read about how to extend Istio to virtual machines. Toward the end of this part, you will read various tips for troubleshooting Istio and best practices to operate and configure Istio in production. We will finish the book by summarizing what we have learned and applying this to another sample application, along with discussing eBPF and how you can learn more about Istio. The appendix provides you with valuable details about other Service Mesh technologies and will help you get comparable knowledge of Istio in regard to other options.

This part contains the following chapters...