Istio Service Mesh Workshop
Master modern microservices communication using Istio service mesh. This 1-day intensive covers traffic management, mutual TLS security, canary deployments, observability, and resilience patterns. Learn how Fortune 500 companies manage complex microservices architectures at scale.
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Vikram Mehta
Service Mesh Platform Engineer, Google Cloud
What You Will Learn
Understand service mesh architecture and why Istio is transforming microservices
Implement traffic management: routing, load balancing, and retries
Secure microservices communication with mutual TLS (mTLS) and authorization policies
Deploy applications using canary, blue-green, and progressive delivery patterns
Set up comprehensive observability: distributed tracing, metrics, and logs
Implement resilience patterns: circuit breakers, bulkheads, and fault injection
Curriculum
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Module 1: Service Mesh Fundamentals & Istio Architecture
1.5 hours
•What is a service mesh and why you need it
•Istio components: control plane, data plane, sidecars
•Virtual Services and Destination Rules
•Service entries and network policies
•Live demo: Istio managing traffic
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Module 2: Traffic Management & Advanced Routing
2 hours
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Module 3: Security: mTLS and Authorization
1.5 hours
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Module 4: Canary Deployments & Observability
1.5 hours
About the Instructor
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Vikram Mehta
Service Mesh Platform Engineer, Google Cloud
10+ years in distributed systems and service mesh. Istio core contributor and author of microservices patterns.
Prerequisites
Solid Kubernetes knowledge (pods, services, deployments, namespaces)
Microservices architecture concepts
Familiarity with container networking
Prior experience with service-to-service communication
Who Is This For
Platform engineers managing microservices infrastructure
Kubernetes operators working with complex deployments
Architects designing resilient microservices systems
Teams implementing advanced traffic management and security
What Is Included
8 hours of advanced live Zoom instruction
Istio configuration manifests and templates
Traffic management and security policy examples
Canary deployment and observability setup guides
30-day access to session recording
Advanced Istio patterns checklist and resources
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