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Service Mesh explained in 60 minutes Istio mTLS and Canary Demo Complete beginner level guide
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What is a Service Mesh?
A Service Mesh helps manage the traffic within a Kubernetes cluster, focusing primarily on East-West traffic (service-to-service…
Concept
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How Istio Works: Sidecar Pattern
Istio injects a 'sidecar' container (Envoy proxy) into every pod in the namespaces it manages. This proxy intercepts all inbound and…
Concept
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Mutual TLS (mTLS)
By default, Istio operates in permissive mode (accepting both plaintext and TLS traffic). When enforced strictly, mTLS ensures that both…
Security
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Dynamic Admission Controllers
How does Istio automatically inject these sidecar proxies? It uses a Dynamic Admission Controller (specifically, a Mutating Admission…
Concept
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Traffic Management (Virtual Services and Destination Rules)
Virtual Service: Defines routing rules for incoming traffic (e.g., send 50% of traffic to v1 and 50% to v2).. Destination Rule: Defines…
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