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.
Estimated completion time: 21 lessons • Self-paced learning • Lifetime access
Yes, it adds operational overhead; for large scale.
We focus on Istio as the industry standard.
Yes, Istio is designed primarily for Kubernetes.
Minimal, but we discuss optimizing sidecar resources.
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