Kuma Service Mesh In Depth

Kuma Service Mesh in DepthDefinitive Reference for Developers and Engineers

Istio in Depth

"Istio in Depth" "Istio in Depth" is an authoritative guide that unpacks the complexities of service mesh technology with a comprehensive focus on Istio, the industry-leading open-source solution for securing, managing, and observing microservices. The book systematically explores Istio’s architectural foundations, starting with the history and evolution of service meshes, a detailed breakdown of core components, and best practices for scalability, reliability, and extensibility. It provides hands-on insights into deploying Istio in both single- and multi-cluster environments, highlighting the strategic goals that drive modern cloud-native systems. Diving into practical integration, this book offers a deep-dive into operationalizing Istio on Kubernetes, including custom resource definitions, automatic and manual sidecar injection, and strategies for multi-tenancy, upgrades, and legacy workload integration. Readers are guided through the core pillars of traffic management, security, and observability—mastering advanced routing, policy control, zero-trust security architecture, and full-stack telemetry with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Jaeger. Cutting-edge chapters illustrate how to extend Istio with WebAssembly plugins, integrate with external policy engines, and engineer dynamic mesh topologies for hybrid and federated cloud environments. "Istio in Depth" is also a practical operations handbook, addressing production-scale installation, lifecycle automation, troubleshooting, disaster recovery, and cost optimization. Real-world adoption stories, current advancements, and future roadmaps place Istio in a broader cloud-native ecosystem, equipping architects, platform engineers, and DevOps practitioners with the knowledge and confidence to lead secure, resilient, and observable microservice infrastructures. This book is an indispensable resource for anyone looking to master service mesh technologies and drive innovation in distributed systems.

Bootstrapping Service Mesh Implementations with Istio

A step-by-step guide to Istio Service Mesh implementation, with examples of complex and distributed workloads built using microservices architecture and deployed in Kubernetes Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key Features Learn the design, implementation, and troubleshooting of Istio in a clear and concise format Grasp concepts, ideas, and solutions that can be readily applied in real work environments See Istio in action through examples that cover Terraform, GitOps, AWS, Kubernetes, and Go Book Description Istio is a game-changer in managing connectivity and operational efficiency of microservices, but implementing and using it in applications can be challenging. This book will help you overcome these challenges and gain insights into Istio's features and functionality layer by layer with the help of easy-to-follow examples. It will let you focus on implementing and deploying Istio on the cloud and in production environments instead of dealing with the complexity of demo apps. You'll learn the installation, architecture, and components of Istio Service Mesh, perform multi-cluster installation, and integrate legacy workloads deployed on virtual machines. As you advance, you'll understand how to secure microservices from threats, perform multi-cluster deployments on Kubernetes, use load balancing, monitor application traffic, implement service discovery and management, and much more. You'll also explore other Service Mesh technologies such as Linkerd, Consul, Kuma, and Gloo Mesh. In addition to observing and operating Istio using Kiali, Prometheus, Grafana and Jaeger, you'll perform zero-trust security and reliable communication between distributed applications. After reading this book, you'll be equipped with the practical knowledge and skills needed to use and operate Istio effectively. What you will learn Get an overview of Service Mesh and the problems it solves Become well-versed with the fundamentals of Istio, its architecture, installation, and deployment Extend the Istio data plane using WebAssembly (Wasm) and learn why Envoy is used as a data plane Understand how to use OPA Gatekeeper to automate Istio's best practices Manage communication between microservices using Istio Explore different ways to secure the communication between microservices Get insights into traffic flow in the Service Mesh Learn best practices to deploy and operate Istio in production environments Who this book is for The book is for DevOps engineers, SREs, cloud and software developers, sysadmins, and architects who have been using microservices in Kubernetes-based environments. It addresses challenges in application networking during microservice communications. Working experience on Kubernetes, along with knowledge of DevOps, application networking, security, and programming languages like Golang, will assist with understanding the concepts covered.