⛵️ Learn Istio!

An Istio + service mesh resource list.

🔎 Why Use a Service Mesh?

• Book excerpt - Should I Use Microservices? - Sam Newman
• Book excerpt - Do you need a service mesh? - George Miranda
• Twitter - Matt Klein on service mesh
• Envoy docs - Service Mesh
• Blog post - What's a service mesh? And why do I need one? - William Morgan
• Blog post - Serverless vs. Containers - when to pick which?- Philipp Müns
• Blog post - When you do (and Don't Need) a Service Mesh - Andrew Jenkins
• Service Mesh Comparison - servicemesh.es
• Platform9 - Kubernetes Service Mesh: A Comparison of Istio, Linkerd, and Consul
• ThoughtWorks Technology Radar - Istio

🚀 Use Cases

• Blog post - Hellofresh - Everything We Learned Running Istio in Production (2020)
• Blog post - Machine Learning in Production: Using Istio to Mesh Microservices in Google Kubernetes Engine - Dr. Stephen Odaibo (2020)
• Docs - Istio usage in Kubeflow
• Kubernetes Podcast- AutoTrader UK, with Russell Warman and Karl Stoney (2019)
• Blog post - How the U.S. Air Force Deployed Kubernetes and Istio on an F-16 in 45 days (2019)
• Blog post - Descartes Labs - Custom Kubernetes Scaling via Envoy Metrics (2019)
• Slides - From Brownfield to Greenfield: Freddie Mac's Service Mesh Journey (2019)
• AspenMesh Customer Stories - Delphi Technology
• Blog post - Istio a Game Changer for HP's FitStation Platform (2018)
• Slides - Istio: The Weather Company's Journey (2018)
• Solo.io and Google - Service Mesh in the Real World - use case demos with Istio

🥳 Getting Started with Istio

• Video - Istio Explained - Ram Vennam, IBM
• Video - Istio in 5 Minutes - Megan O'Keefe
• Docs - What is Istio?
• Docs - Getting Started
• Video - Incrementally Adopting Istio - Sandeep Parikh
• Book - Istio Explained - Getting Started with Service Mesh - Lin Sun and Daniel Berg, IBM
• Whitepaper - The Service Mesh Era (Google Cloud)
• Slides - Service Mesh from the Ground Up (O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference - 2020)
• Book - Istio Handbook [zh-CN] (Service Mesher)
• Blog post - Learn Istio in a visual way, with sketchnotes - Aurélie Vache
• Book - Istio: Up and Running
• Workshop - Istio Service Mesh
• Book - Understanding Istio in a visual way
• Book - Istio in Action - Christian Posta
• Course - Learn Istio Service Mesh - Peter Jausovec
• Workshop - Kubernetes and Service Mesh
• Blog post - How to Install and Configure Istio

📊 Observability

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

🔒 Security

• Docs - Security
• Sample - Introduction to Istio Security
• Sample - Istio by Example - Mutual TLS
• Blog Post - Istio Mutual TLS Demo (Ultimate Security)
• Sample -Istio by Example - JWT Authentication
• Sample - Istio By Example - Authorization
• Docs - Best Practices - Security
• Video - Controlling Access to Your Microservices with Istio Service Mesh
• Video - Securing gRPC Microservices with Istio Service Mesh
• Video - Auto mTLS and JWT
• Blog Post - Setting up SSL Certificates with Istio Gateway

🚦 Traffic Management

• Docs - Virtual Services and DestinationRules
• Docs - Circuit Breaking
• Docs - task - Istio Ingress Traffic
• Docs - task - Manage traffic to external services
• Docs - Best Practices - Traffic Management
• Sample - Canary Deployments with Istio
• Sample - Istio by example - modify HTTP response headers
• Sample - Istio by example - multiple traffic rules per service
• Tool - Flagger - Istio Canary Deployments and A/B Testing
• Video - Traffic Mirroring with Istio
• Video - Istio Ingress Gateway

🌏 Multicluster

• Docs - Istio Deployment Models
• Sample - Multicluster with replicated control planes
• Sample - Multicluster with a shared control plane
• Blog - Open Source Service Mesh Hub for multicluster mesh management plane
• Video - multicluster grouping and operation with Service Mesh Hub

⬆️ Virtual Machines

• Sample - Integrate a Google Compute Engine VM into a GKE-based Istio mesh
• Sample - 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

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

🏗 Operations

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

🌊 Deep Dives

• Blog posts - Microservices Guide - Martin Fowler
• 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 - Invention, IBM and Istio, with Lin Sun (2020)
• Blog Post - Istio as an Example of When Not to do Microservices - Christian Posta
• Blog post - Service Mesh Pattern (Phil Calcado)
• Blog Post - Do I Need an API Gateway if I use a service mesh? - Christian Posta
• Blog Post - In-depth analysis of Istio traffic management implementation mechanism - Zhao Huabing
• 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
• Developer Portal for Istio by Solo.io
• Blog Post - Deploying Multiple Istio Ingress Gateways - Peter Jausovec