Istio in Action (Unabridged‪)‬

Solve difficult service-to-service communication challenges around security, observability, routing, and resilience with an Istio-based service mesh. Istio allows you to define these traffic policies as configuration and enforce them consistently without needing any service-code changes.

In Istio in Action you will learn:

Why and when to use a service mesh
Envoy's role in Istio's service mesh
Allowing "North-South" traffic into a mesh
Fine-grained traffic routing
Make your services robust to network failures
Gain observability over your system with telemetry "golden signals"
How Istio makes your services secure by default
Integrate cloud-native applications with legacy workloads such as in VMs


Reduce the operational complexity of your microservices with an Istio-powered service mesh! Istio in Action shows you how to implement this powerful new architecture and move your application-networking concerns to a dedicated infrastructure layer. Non-functional concerns stay separate from your application, so your code is easier to understand, maintain, and adapt regardless of programming language. In this practical guide, you'll go hands-on with the full-featured Istio service mesh to manage microservices communication. Example configurations and examples make it easy to understand how to control routing, secure container applications, and monitor network traffic.

About the audience

For developers, architects, and operations engineers.

About the authors

Christian Posta is a well-known architect, speaker, and contributor. Rinor Maloku is an engineer at Solo.io working on application networking solutions.