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Istio in Action
Solve difficult service-to-service communication challenges around security, observability, routing, and resilience with an Istio-based service mesh. Istio allows you to define these traffic policies as configuration and enforce them consistently without needing any service-code changes.
In Istio in Action you will
Why and when to use a service mesh Envoy's role in Istio's service mesh Allowing "North-South" traffic into a mesh Fine-grained traffic routing Make your services robust to network failures Gain observability over your system with telemetry "golden signals" How Istio makes your services secure by default Integrate cloud-native applications with legacy workloads such as in VMs Reduce the operational complexity of your microservices with an Istio-powered service mesh! Istio in Action shows you how to implement this powerful new architecture and move your application-networking concerns to a dedicated infrastructure layer. Non-functional concerns stay separate from your application, so your code is easier to understand, maintain, and adapt regardless of programming language. In this practical guide, you'll go hands-on with the full-featured Istio service mesh to manage microservices communication. Example configurations and examples make it easy to understand how to control routing, secure container applications, and monitor network traffic.
About the audience
For developers, architects, and operations engineers.
About the authors
Christian Posta is a well-known architect, speaker, and contributor. Rinor Maloku is an engineer at Solo.io working on application networking solutions.
PLEASE When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
In Istio in Action you will
Why and when to use a service mesh Envoy's role in Istio's service mesh Allowing "North-South" traffic into a mesh Fine-grained traffic routing Make your services robust to network failures Gain observability over your system with telemetry "golden signals" How Istio makes your services secure by default Integrate cloud-native applications with legacy workloads such as in VMs Reduce the operational complexity of your microservices with an Istio-powered service mesh! Istio in Action shows you how to implement this powerful new architecture and move your application-networking concerns to a dedicated infrastructure layer. Non-functional concerns stay separate from your application, so your code is easier to understand, maintain, and adapt regardless of programming language. In this practical guide, you'll go hands-on with the full-featured Istio service mesh to manage microservices communication. Example configurations and examples make it easy to understand how to control routing, secure container applications, and monitor network traffic.
About the audience
For developers, architects, and operations engineers.
About the authors
Christian Posta is a well-known architect, speaker, and contributor. Rinor Maloku is an engineer at Solo.io working on application networking solutions.
PLEASE When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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November 23, 2022
It took me a while to get through this book, but it doesn't mean it's bad.
1. its definition of service mesh and intro do what Istio is are probably the best ones I've ever seen in a book - no fluff, straight to the point
2. it's not focused on any particular cloud vendor - feel free to start reading regardless of where you want your services
3. I like the composition - it covered pretty much all the major concerns (from an architectural perspective) - in the correct order and depth
4. practical sections of the book (let's try the stuff out) unfortunately get quite boring and not very informative at some point ... you're pretty much asked to do kubectl apply w/o diving into how the parameterization is being done (what is the grammar, how is it structured, what's possible here)
5. three final chapters were far beyond what I needed or was able to validate - but it's good that the author wasn't afraid of non-trivial topics
6. what I really, really missed was a chapter (or even a few ...) about typical operational scenarios from the perspective of a service mesh operator - yeah, the book provides you the tools to figure this stuff out, yet, it'd be really comforting to see those
In the end, it's the best book on service meshes (in general) I've ever seen. Honestly recommended.
1. its definition of service mesh and intro do what Istio is are probably the best ones I've ever seen in a book - no fluff, straight to the point
2. it's not focused on any particular cloud vendor - feel free to start reading regardless of where you want your services
3. I like the composition - it covered pretty much all the major concerns (from an architectural perspective) - in the correct order and depth
4. practical sections of the book (let's try the stuff out) unfortunately get quite boring and not very informative at some point ... you're pretty much asked to do kubectl apply w/o diving into how the parameterization is being done (what is the grammar, how is it structured, what's possible here)
5. three final chapters were far beyond what I needed or was able to validate - but it's good that the author wasn't afraid of non-trivial topics
6. what I really, really missed was a chapter (or even a few ...) about typical operational scenarios from the perspective of a service mesh operator - yeah, the book provides you the tools to figure this stuff out, yet, it'd be really comforting to see those
In the end, it's the best book on service meshes (in general) I've ever seen. Honestly recommended.
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December 7, 2022Thrilling read, quite the page-turner.
September 27, 2023
What a read? Full of practical wisdom. Takes you from
Zero to Hero in Service Mesh. A little experience in using Mesh might really help you.
A fan of Christian Posta now. Beauty!!!
This book is going to be there on the shelf and sure to be referenced daily as long as you are adopting Istio Service Mesh in your org
Zero to Hero in Service Mesh. A little experience in using Mesh might really help you.
A fan of Christian Posta now. Beauty!!!
This book is going to be there on the shelf and sure to be referenced daily as long as you are adopting Istio Service Mesh in your org
December 28, 2022
I had a pleasant time going through this book. Examples are quite well setup (so far I only needed to troubleshoot once).
Since everything is based on Envoy, I wish that the book could spend more time introducing it at the beginning rather than reintroducing it again in later parts of the book. And instead of providing links, the author could have recommended what the readers should explore more.
The book doesn't really explain much about istioctl either. The explanation on the various subcommand is provided throughout the examples, but the command is not actively used like kubectl so that's kinda understandable.
Since everything is based on Envoy, I wish that the book could spend more time introducing it at the beginning rather than reintroducing it again in later parts of the book. And instead of providing links, the author could have recommended what the readers should explore more.
The book doesn't really explain much about istioctl either. The explanation on the various subcommand is provided throughout the examples, but the command is not actively used like kubectl so that's kinda understandable.
February 28, 2023
Good book with good insights on Istio.
Very complete.
Very complete.
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