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Service Mesh (Istio)

Connect, secure, and monitor microservices at scale. Master Istio sidecars, mTLS security, and traffic management strategies.

As microservices grow, networking becomes the bottleneck. A Service Mesh solves this by moving logic to a dedicated infrastructure layer. This advanced course teaches Istio, the leading service mesh. You will learn to inject sidecar proxies, enforce mutual TLS (mTLS) for zero-trust security, and manage traffic for canary deployments and A/B testing. We also cover observability features to trace requests across your distributed architecture without changing application code.

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Complete Course Syllabus

  • 1
    Mesh Architecture
    Control plane vs Data plane and the Envoy proxy.
  • 2
    Traffic Management
    Virtual Services, Gateways, and intelligent routing.
  • 3
    Security & mTLS
    Authenticating services and encrypting traffic automatically.
  • 4
    Observability
    Tracing distributed requests with Jaeger and Kiali.
  • 5
    Resilience
    Circuit breaking, retries, and timeout configurations.

Estimated completion time: 21 lessons • Self-paced learning • Lifetime access

Career Outlook

Estimated Salary
$130k - $170k

Career Paths

Service Mesh Engineer $140k-$180k
Cloud Platform Architect $150k-$200k
DevSecOps Engineer $135k-$175k

What You Will Learn

Deploy and configure Istio on Kubernetes clusters
Implement zero-trust security with automatic mTLS encryption
Control traffic flow for Canary and Blue/Green deployments
Visualize service dependencies and latency using Kiali
Inject faults to test system resilience (Chaos Engineering)

Skills You Will Gain

Istio Kubernetes Networking mTLS Security Traffic Shaping Observability

Who Is This For

Platform Engineers
Cloud Architects
DevSecOps

Prerequisites

Kubernetes Proficiency
Networking Basics

Service Mesh (Istio) FAQs

Is it complex?

Yes, it adds operational overhead; for large scale.

Linkerd vs Istio?

We focus on Istio as the industry standard.

K8s required?

Yes, Istio is designed primarily for Kubernetes.

Performance impact?

Minimal, but we discuss optimizing sidecar resources.

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