Istio in Action

The "servicemesh" pattern, implemented by platforms like Istio, helps push operational issues into the infrastructure, making the application code easier to understand, maintain, and adapt. Istio in Action is a comprehensive guide to implementing a full-featured Istio-based service mesh, handling authentication, routing, retrying, load balancing, collecting data, security, and other common network-related tasks. It also teaches how to use Istio in a multi-cloud world with the data layer deployed on a cluster like Kubernetes.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 375 pages
Publication date: 13 April 2022
Publisher: Manning Publications

The "servicemesh" pattern, implemented by platforms like Istio, is a powerful approach to simplifying the management and operations of microservices applications. By pushing operational issues into the infrastructure, developers can focus on writing application code that is easier to understand, maintain, and adapt.

Istio in Action is a comprehensive guide that teaches developers how to implement a full-featured Istio-based service mesh. The book covers a wide range of topics, including authentication, routing, retrying, load balancing, collecting data, security, and more. With helpful diagrams and hands-on examples, readers will learn how to use Istio to control routing, secure container applications, and monitor network traffic.

One of the key benefits of using Istio is its ability to bring Istio to legacy systems without making any changes to the applications. This makes it an ideal solution for organizations that want to modernize their infrastructure while preserving their existing investments. Istio can also be used in a multi-cloud world, with the data layer deployed on a cluster like Kubernetes.

Cloud-native applications can be complex, with thousands of clustered containers, distributed components, and complex interactions. To build them effectively, developers need a new approach to infrastructural concerns like monitoring, storage, scaling, orchestration, and security. The Istio platform offers a configurable infrastructure layer called a service mesh that reliably and efficiently manages day-to-day concerns like service discovery, load balancing, encryption, authentication and authorization, circuit breakers, and more.

Open source and cloud-ready, Istio is a welcome upgrade from manually managed microservices infrastructure. By leveraging the power of the servicemesh pattern and Istio, developers can build more scalable, reliable, and efficient microservices applications that can easily adapt to changing business needs.

Weight: 880g
Dimension: 188 x 501 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781617295829