Istio is one of the most popular solutions for service meshes in cloud-native infrastructures. I co-authored this FREE course for participants who want to learn the basics of Istio within a day. I hosted the workshop on Katacoda so that you can learn Istio without installing anything to your system. There is a video playlist to accompany the workshop on YouTube. To complete the workshop, read this article for a short description of the videos, launch Katacoda, watch each video, and practice on Katacoda.

Istio is one of the most popular solutions for service meshes in cloud-native infrastructures, and it is most often deployed on Kubernetes clusters. In Istio Succinctly, authors Rahul Rai and Tarun Pabbi provide a practical guide to getting started with Istio, from setting up a Kubernetes cluster, to managing its traffic management, security, observability, and policy enforcement.

With excellent orchestration and routing capabilities, Kubernetes is an enterprise-grade platform for building microservices applications. Kubernetes is evolving as the de facto container management tool used by organizations and cloud vendors all over the world. Kubernetes Succinctly by Rahul Rai and Tarun Pabbi is your guide to learning Kubernetes and leveraging its many capabilities for developing, validating, and maintaining your applications.

This guide demonstrates design patterns that can help you to solve the problems you might encounter in many different areas of cloud application development. Each pattern discusses design considerations, and explains how you can implement it using the features of Windows Azure. The patterns are grouped into categories: availability, data management, design and implementation, messaging, performance and scalability, resilience, management and monitoring, and security.