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⛵️ Istio resources 🕸

⛵️ Learn Istio!

An Istio + service mesh resource list.

🥳 Getting Started

• Video - What is a Service Mesh? (HashiCorp)
• Blog Post - Service Mesh Pattern, by Phil Calcado
• Envoy docs - Service Mesh
• Platform9 - Kubernetes Service Mesh: A Comparison of Istio, Linkerd, and Consul
• Video - Istio Explained - Ram Vennam, IBM
• Istio docs - what is Istio?
• Istio docs - Getting Started
• Video - Incrementally Adopting Istio - Sandeep Parikh
• ebook - Istio Explained - Getting Started with Service Mesh - Lin Sun and Daniel Berg, IBM
• ebook - The Service Mesh Era (Google Cloud)
• Slides - Service Mesh from the Ground Up (O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference - 2020)
• Istio docs - Learn Microservices using Kubernetes and Istio
• Istio Handbook [zh-CN] (Service Mesher)

📊 Observability

• Istio Docs - Observability concepts
• Blog Post - Istio Prometheus Demo (Ultimate Security)
• Task - Using Istio's Grafana Dashboards
• Blog Post - Istio Grafana Demo (Ultimate Security)
• Task - Service Graph with Kiali
• Sample - Using Google Cloud Monitoring (Stackdriver) for Istio metrics
• Istio Docs - Best Practices - Observability

🔒 Security

• Istio docs - Security
• Sample - Introduction to Istio Security
• Istio by Example - Mutual TLS
• Blog Post - Istio Mutual TLS Demo (Ultimate Security)
• Istio by Example - JWT Authentication
• Istio By Example - Authorization
• Istio Docs - Best Practices - Security
• Controlling Access to Your Microservices with Istio Service Mesh

🚦 Traffic Management

• Sample - Canary Deployments with Istio
• Istio docs - Virtual Services and DestinationRules
• Flagger - tool for Istio Canary Deployments
• Istio by example - path-based routing
• Istio by example - modify HTTP response headers
• Istio by example - multiple traffic rules per service
• Istio docs - Circuit Breaking
• Istio docs - task - Istio Ingress Traffic
• Istio docs - task - Manage traffic to external services
• Video- Istio in production - Day 2 traffic routing
• Istio docs - Best Practices - Traffic Management

🌏 Multicluster

• Docs - Istio Deployment Models
• Sample - Multicluster with replicated control planes
• Sample - Multicluster with a shared control plane

⬆️ Virtual Machines

• Istio samples - integrating a Google Compute Engine VM into a GKE-based Istio mesh
• Istio samples - VM to GKE migration with Multicluster Istio
• Video- Life outside the Cluster - Adding a Virtual Machine to an Envoy Service Mesh - Kubecon '19 (Ameer Abbas, Megan O'Keefe)

📦 Extensibility

• Istio Docs - Extensibility
• Istio Blog - Redefining Extensibility in Proxies - introducing WebAssembly to Envoy and Istio (2020)
• WebAssembly Hub
• Tutorial - Deploying Wasm Filters to Istio - solo.io

🔎 Operations and Troubleshooting

• Upgrade Istio using istioctl
• Istio Docs - Common Problems
• Istio FAQ
• Diagnose Your Configuration with istioctl analyze
• Istio API Reference
• Understanding Envoy Proxy HTTP Access Logs - Richard Li, Ambassador Blog

🌊 Deep Dives

• Docs - Istio Architecture
• Docs - Istio Performance and Scalability
• Kubernetes Podcast - Istio, with Jasmin Jaksic and Dan Ciruli (2018)
• Kubernetes Podcast - Istio 1.2, with Louis Ryan (2019)
• Kubernetes Podcast- AutoTrader UK, with Russell Warman and Karl Stoney (2019)
• Kubernetes Podcast - Invention, IBM and Istio, with Lin Sun (2020)
• Blog Post - Istio as an Example of When Not to do Microservices - Christian Posta
• Blog Post - Do I Need an API Gateway if I use a service mesh? - Christian Posta
• Video- Life of a packet through Istio - Matt Turner
• Video - Service Mesh in the Real World - Managing Egress Using Istio - Christian Posta, Betty Junod, and Sandeep Parikh
• Video - Istio 1.5 Feature Tour - Megan O'Keefe