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Istio in Action
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Istio in Action

by Rinor Maloku, Christian E. Posta
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
480 pages
13h 18m
English
Manning Publications
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2 First steps with Istio

This chapter covers

  • Installing Istio on Kubernetes
  • Understanding the Istio control-plane components
  • Deploying an application with the Istio proxy
  • Controlling traffic with the Istio VirtualService resource
  • Exploring complementary components for tracing, metrics, and visualization

Istio solves some of the difficult challenges of service communication in cloud environments and provides a lot of capabilities to both developers and operators. We’ll cover these capabilities and how it all works in subsequent chapters; but to help you get a feel for some of the features of Istio, in this chapter we do a basic installation (more advanced installation options can be found in appendix A) and deploy a few services. The services ...

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