Istio
Course Index
28 Lessons · 3 Sections
Master Istio — the CNCF-graduated service mesh providing mTLS, traffic management, canary deployments & observability for Kubernetes microservices. Covers Envoy, VirtualService, Ambient Mode sidecar-less & Gateway API 2026. Includes 4 builds: traffic splitting, mTLS namespace, canary deployments & Kiali observability.
28Lessons
3Sections
4Projects
FreeAccess
Section 1Istio FundamentalsLessons 1–10
Lesson 1
What is Istio? Service Mesh Overview
Lesson 2
Service Mesh Architecture: Data Plane & Control Plane
Lesson 3
Envoy Proxy: The Istio Data Plane
Lesson 4
Installing Istio with istioctl & Helm
Lesson 5
Sidecar Injection: Automatic & Manual
Lesson 6
Traffic Management: VirtualService & DestinationRule
Lesson 7
Gateway: Ingress & Egress Traffic
Lesson 8
Canary Deployments with Istio
Lesson 9
Mutual TLS (mTLS): Zero-Trust Service Communication
Lesson 10
Authorization Policies
Section 2Observability, Advanced & ProductionLessons 11–22
Lesson 11
Observability: Metrics, Traces & Logs from Istio
Lesson 12
Kiali: Istio Service Mesh Visualisation
Lesson 13
Circuit Breaking & Outlier Detection
Lesson 14
Fault Injection & Chaos Testing
Lesson 15
Retry & Timeout Policies
Lesson 16
Service Entry: External Service Access
Lesson 17
Istio Multi-Cluster Deployments
Lesson 18
Istio Ambient Mode: Sidecar-less Service Mesh
Lesson 19
Istio vs Linkerd vs Cilium 2026
Lesson 20
Istio Performance Tuning
Lesson 21
Gateway API: The Future of Istio Ingress
Lesson 22
Istio in 2026: Ambient Stable & CNCF Graduation
Section 3Anti-Patterns, Best Practices & ProjectsLessons 23–28