Deploying an application into the service mesh
We could define the components and objects of Istio all day, but if you are like us, examples and use-cases are often more beneficial to understanding advanced concepts like the features provided by Istio. In this section, we will explain many of the custom resources in detail, providing examples that you can deploy in your KinD cluster.
Deploying your first application into the mesh
Finally! We have Istio and the add-on components installed and we can move on to installing a real application in the service mesh to verify everything is working.
For this section, we will deploy an example application from Google called the Boutique app. In the next chapter, we will deploy a different application and explain all of the details and communication between the services, but the Boutique app is a great application to test out the mesh before we get into that level of information.