⛵️ Learn Istio!
An Istio + service mesh resource list.
🔎 Why Use a Service Mesh?
- Book excerpt - Should I Use Microservices? - Sam Newman
- Book excerpt - Do you need a service mesh? - George Miranda
- Twitter - Matt Klein on service mesh
- Envoy docs - Service Mesh
- Blog post - What's a service mesh? And why do I need one? - William Morgan
- Blog post - Serverless vs. Containers - when to pick which?- Philipp Müns
- Blog post - When you do (and Don't Need) a Service Mesh - Andrew Jenkins
- Service Mesh Comparison - servicemesh.es
- Platform9 - Kubernetes Service Mesh: A Comparison of Istio, Linkerd, and Consul
- ThoughtWorks Technology Radar - Istio
🚀 Use Cases
- Blog post - Hellofresh - Everything We Learned Running Istio in Production (2020)
- Blog post - Machine Learning in Production: Using Istio to Mesh Microservices in Google Kubernetes Engine - Dr. Stephen Odaibo (2020)
- Docs - Istio usage in Kubeflow
- Kubernetes Podcast- AutoTrader UK, with Russell Warman and Karl Stoney (2019)
- Blog post - How the U.S. Air Force Deployed Kubernetes and Istio on an F-16 in 45 days (2019)
- Blog post - Descartes Labs - Custom Kubernetes Scaling via Envoy Metrics (2019)
- Slides - From Brownfield to Greenfield: Freddie Mac's Service Mesh Journey (2019)
- AspenMesh Customer Stories - Delphi Technology
- Blog post - Istio a Game Changer for HP's FitStation Platform (2018)
- Slides - Istio: The Weather Company's Journey (2018)
- Solo.io and Google - Service Mesh in the Real World - use case demos with Istio
🥳 Getting Started with Istio
- Video - Istio Explained - Ram Vennam, IBM
- Video - Istio in 5 Minutes - Megan O'Keefe
- Docs - What is Istio?
- Docs - Getting Started
- Video - Incrementally Adopting Istio - Sandeep Parikh
- Book - Istio Explained - Getting Started with Service Mesh - Lin Sun and Daniel Berg, IBM
- Whitepaper - The Service Mesh Era (Google Cloud)
- Slides - Service Mesh from the Ground Up (O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference - 2020)
- Book - Istio Handbook [zh-CN] (Service Mesher)
- Blog post - Learn Istio in a visual way, with sketchnotes - Aurélie Vache
- Book - Istio: Up and Running
- Workshop - Istio Service Mesh
- Book - Understanding Istio in a visual way
- Book - Istio in Action - Christian Posta
- Course - Learn Istio Service Mesh - Peter Jausovec
- Workshop - Kubernetes and Service Mesh
📊 Observability
- Docs - Observability concepts
- Blog Post - Istio Prometheus Demo (Ultimate Security)
- Docs- - Using Istio's Grafana Dashboards
- Blog Post - Istio Grafana Demo (Ultimate Security)
- Docs- - Service Graph with Kiali
- Sample - Using Google Cloud Monitoring (Stackdriver) for Istio metrics
- Docs - Best Practices - Observability
🔒 Security
- Docs - Security
- Sample - Introduction to Istio Security
- Sample - Istio by Example - Mutual TLS
- Blog Post - Istio Mutual TLS Demo (Ultimate Security)
- Sample -Istio by Example - JWT Authentication
- Sample - Istio By Example - Authorization
- Docs - Best Practices - Security
- Video - Controlling Access to Your Microservices with Istio Service Mesh
- Video - Securing gRPC Microservices with Istio Service Mesh
- Video - Auto mTLS and JWT
- Blog Post - Setting up SSL Certificates with Istio Gateway
🚦 Traffic Management
- Docs - Virtual Services and DestinationRules
- Docs - Circuit Breaking
- Docs - task - Istio Ingress Traffic
- Docs - task - Manage traffic to external services
- Docs - Best Practices - Traffic Management
- Sample - Canary Deployments with Istio
- Sample - Istio by example - modify HTTP response headers
- Sample - Istio by example - multiple traffic rules per service
- Tool - Flagger - Istio Canary Deployments and A/B Testing
- Video - Traffic Mirroring with Istio
- Video - Istio Ingress Gateway
🌏 Multicluster
- Docs - Istio Deployment Models
- Sample - Multicluster with replicated control planes
- Sample - Multicluster with a shared control plane
- Blog - Open Source Service Mesh Hub for multicluster mesh management plane
- Video - multicluster grouping and operation with Service Mesh Hub
⬆️ Virtual Machines
- Sample - Integrate a Google Compute Engine VM into a GKE-based Istio mesh
- Sample - VM to GKE migration with Multicluster Istio
- Video- Life outside the Cluster - Adding a Virtual Machine to an Envoy Service Mesh - Kubecon '19 (Ameer Abbas, Megan O'Keefe)
📦 Extensibility
- Docs - Wasm Extensibility
- Istio Blog - Redefining Extensibility in Proxies - introducing WebAssembly to Envoy and Istio (2020)
- WebAssembly Hub
- Tutorial - Deploying Wasm Filters to Istio - solo.io
- Image Hub
🏗 Operations
- Docs - Upgrade Istio using istioctl
- Docs - Common Problems
- Docs - Istio FAQ
- Docs - Diagnose Your Configuration with
istioctl analyze - Docs - Istio API Reference
- Blog post - Understanding Envoy Proxy HTTP Access Logs - Richard Li, Ambassador Blog
🌊 Deep Dives
- Blog posts - Microservices Guide - Martin Fowler
- Docs - Istio Architecture
- Docs - Istio Performance and Scalability
- Kubernetes Podcast - Istio, with Jasmin Jaksic and Dan Ciruli (2018)
- Kubernetes Podcast - Istio 1.2, with Louis Ryan (2019)
- Kubernetes Podcast - Invention, IBM and Istio, with Lin Sun (2020)
- Blog Post - Istio as an Example of When Not to do Microservices - Christian Posta
- Blog post - Service Mesh Pattern (Phil Calcado)
- Blog Post - Do I Need an API Gateway if I use a service mesh? - Christian Posta
- Blog Post - In-depth analysis of Istio traffic management implementation mechanism - Zhao Huabing
- Video- Life of a packet through Istio - Matt Turner
- Video - Service Mesh in the Real World - Managing Egress Using Istio - Christian Posta, Betty Junod, and Sandeep Parikh
- Video - Istio 1.5 Feature Tour - Megan O'Keefe
- Developer Portal for Istio by Solo.io
- Blog Post - Deploying Multiple Istio Ingress Gateways - Peter Jausovec