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
VirtualServiceresource - 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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