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Overview

Service meshes are becoming a vital component of a company’s infrastructure. This course teaches you how to monitor, connect, and secure microservices using Istio service mesh, the most widely adopted service mesh in production.

What you'll learn

  • Install Istio on a Kubernetes cluster
  • Configure Ingress
  • Understand how sidecar injection works
  • Monitor your services using Grafana, Zipkin, and Kiali
  • Route traffic between multiple service versions
  • Perform blue-green and canary deployments
  • Inject failures and use resiliency features
  • Understand the concept of workload identity and “zero trust” architectures
  • Control access to your workloads
  • Extend the Istio mesh functionality using WebAssembly

Syllabus 10

  1. Welcome to LFS144x!
  2. Chapter 1. Overview of Service Mesh and Istio
  3. Chapter 2. Installing Istio
  4. Chapter 3. Observability
  5. Chapter 4. Traffic Management
  6. Chapter 5. Security
  7. Chapter 6. Extending the Mesh
  8. Chapter 7. Advanced Topics
  9. Chapter 8. Istio Community
  10. Final Exam (Verified Certificate track only)

Skills you'll practise

AuthenticationsKubernetesMicroservicesResilienceCircuit BreakersLinuxDocker (Software)Authorization (Computing)WebAssemblyApplication DeploymentIstioObservability

Advantages and disadvantages

Advantages

  • University courses you can audit for free, with lectures, readings and practice quizzes.
  • A verified certificate from the university if you pay for it.
  • Self-paced: start any time.
  • A clear syllabus (10 parts) you can see before you start.

Disadvantages

  • Graded assignments and the certificate need the paid track.
  • Audit access can expire a few weeks after the course ends.
  • Learning is free, but the certificate costs money.
  • Some parts (graded work, certificate) are paid.

Some points apply to every course of this kind; see how we rank.

Free to audit

  • Free: Choose "Audit this course" when you enrol: lectures, readings and practice are free.
  • Paid: Graded assignments and the verified certificate (Certificate $189). Audit access may end after the course closes.

Before you start

Before starting this course, you should be familiar with: Basic Linux concepts and command line Knowledge of Kubernetes fundamentals and Kubernetes CLI - we recommend Introduction to Kubernetes, free on edX For hands-on lab exercise, access to a Kubernetes cluster is required. Lab exercises in this course have been tested in a GCP environment.

Taught by

  • Peter JausovecPlatform Advocate
  • Eitan SuezContent Engineer
  • Fazlur Rahman KhanTechnical Trainer

The Linux Foundation is in Tier 3: good universities, respected companies, nonprofits and well-known teachers of our institution ranking (82/100). The people behind Linux and Kubernetes.

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