Istio: Up and Running: Using a Service Mesh to Connect, Secure, Control, and Observe

You did it. You successfully transformed your application into a microservices architecture. But now that you’re running services across different environments―public to public, private to public, virtual machine to container―your cloud native software is beginning to encounter reliability issues.

How do you stay on top of this ever-increasing complexity? With the Istio service mesh, you’ll be able to manage traffic, control access, monitor, report, get telemetry data, manage quota, trace, and more with resilience across your microservice.

In this book, Lee Calcote and Zack Butcher explain why your services need a service mesh and demonstrate step-by-step how Istio fits into the life cycle of a distributed application. You’ll learn about the tools and APIs for enabling and managing many of the features found in Istio.

• Explore the observability challenges Istio addresses
• Use request routing, traffic shifting, fault injection, and other features essential to running a solid service mesh
• Generate and collect telemetry information
• Try different deployment patterns, including A/B, blue/green, and canary
• Get examples of how to develop and deploy real-world applications with Istio support

Lee Calcote is an innovative product and technology leader, passionate about empowering engineers with efficient and effective solutions. As the founder of Layer5, he’s at the forefront of the cloud native movement. Open source, advanced, and emerging technologies have been a consistent focus through Lee’s tenure at SolarWinds, Seagate, Cisco, and Schneider Electric. An advisor, author, and speaker, Lee is active in the community as a Docker Captain, Cloud Native Ambassador, and Google Summer of Code Mentor.

Zack Butcher is a founding engineer at Tetrate and a core contributor to the Istio project. He's always been drawn to hard problems, from developing web applications for IE6 to working on service management, access control, and the central resource hierarchy for Google Cloud Platform. Tetrate is a small company, and he wears many hats there, including system architecture, sales, writing, and speaking.