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Istio Installation and Traffic Management

Install Istio service mesh, configure VirtualServices and DestinationRules, and implement traffic splitting for microservices.

60 minutes
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Lab Overview

🛠 Lab from the Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Used in Week 19. Bootcamp landing page: https://academy.tekanaid.com/bootcamps/platform-engineering-bootcamp Parent course(s):

  • Week 19: Service Mesh with Istio (slug: service-mesh-istio)

🟡 Beta bootcamp lab. Hands-on instructions, check scripts, and solve scripts are in place. Lab is part of the running TaskFlow project that grows across all 21 weeks of the bootcamp.

Install Istio service mesh, configure VirtualServices and DestinationRules, implement traffic splitting, and manage routing policies for microservices.

What You'll Learn

Install Istio using istioctl and verify the control plane components are running

Create VirtualServices and DestinationRules to route traffic between service subsets

Implement weighted traffic splitting to perform a canary deployment between two application versions

Configure Istio Ingress Gateway and egress policies to control external traffic entering and leaving the mesh

Technologies Covered

istioservice-meshtraffic-managementkubernetes

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