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Mastering Service Mesh

By : Anjali Khatri, Vikram Khatri
Book Image

Mastering Service Mesh

By: Anjali Khatri, Vikram Khatri

Overview of this book

Although microservices-based applications support DevOps and continuous delivery, they can also add to the complexity of testing and observability. The implementation of a service mesh architecture, however, allows you to secure, manage, and scale your microservices more efficiently. With the help of practical examples, this book demonstrates how to install, configure, and deploy an efficient service mesh for microservices in a Kubernetes environment. You'll get started with a hands-on introduction to the concepts of cloud-native application management and service mesh architecture, before learning how to build your own Kubernetes environment. While exploring later chapters, you'll get to grips with the three major service mesh providers: Istio, Linkerd, and Consul. You'll be able to identify their specific functionalities, from traffic management, security, and certificate authority through to sidecar injections and observability. By the end of this book, you will have developed the skills you need to effectively manage modern microservices-based applications.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
1
Section 1: Cloud-Native Application Management
4
Section 2: Architecture
8
Section 3: Building a Kubernetes Environment
10
Section 4: Learning about Istio through Examples
18
Section 5: Learning about Linkerd through Examples
24
Section 6: Learning about Consul through Examples

Technical requirements

To complete this chapter, you will need to have completed the hands-on exercises of Chapter 15, Installing Linkerd, that deal with the following topics:

  • Setting up Linkerd
  • Installing a control plane
  • Deploying the booksapp and emojivoto applications

For a complete understanding of Linkerd, we also recommend that you complete the hands-on exercises from Chapter 16, Exploring the Reliability Features of Linkerd, and Chapter 17, Exploring the Security Features of Linkerd.

Make sure that you are in the proper scripts directory for the hands-on exercises:

$ cd ~/ # Switch to home directory
$ cd linkerd/scripts