Authorization Policies

This hands-on lab teaches you how to implement authorization policies in Istio to control service-to-service communication.

You'll learn to:

• Create ALLOW policies to permit specific traffic patterns
• Implement DENY policies to block unauthorized access
• Configure JWT-based authorization for user identity
• Test and validate authorization rules in the mesh

Authorization is a key security topic for the ICA exam (20% Security domain).

Key Resources:

• Authorization Policy
• Authorization Concepts
• JWT Authorization