April 2023
Intermediate to advanced
418 pages
9h 22m
English
Istio and Kubernetes are technologies that complement each other. Kubernetes solves the problem of managing distributed applications packaged as containers isolated from each other and deployed in a consistent environment with dedicated resources. Although Kubernetes solves container deployment, scheduling, and management, it doesn’t solve traffic management between containers. Istio complements Kubernetes by providing traffic management capabilities, adding observability, and enforcing a zero-trust security model.
Istio is like a sidecar to Kubernetes; having said that, Kubernetes is a fairly new technology that got mainstream adoption approximately around 2017. From 2017 onward, ...