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R. Sharma, A. SinghGetting Started with Istio Service Meshhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5458-5_3

3. Installing Istio

Rahul Sharma1  and Avinash Singh2
(1)
Delhi, India
(2)
Gurgaon, Haryana, India
 

In the previous chapter, we went through the microservice architecture and its challenges. You learned how an orchestration engine can solve these challenges, but to make a solution more elegant and reusable, you need a service mesh. In this chapter, we will show you how to set up the Istio environment and understand the basics of Istio.

Istio Service Mesh

As discussed in the previous chapter, when using a microservices architecture, calling services over the network is a little less reliable when you want to provide a ...

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