Istio Service Mesh & Advanced Kubernetes Networking

Name: Istio Service Mesh & Advanced Kubernetes Networking
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Master service mesh architecture and advanced Kubernetes networking with Istio. You'll learn how to design zero-trust microservices platforms with mTLS, fine-grained authorization, intelligent traffic management, and deep observability. Built for platform engineers responsible for production-grade Kubernetes networking at scale.

4.70/5.0

13 hours

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Updated May 2026

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By Marcus Reid

What You'll Learn

Explain the Kubernetes network model, CNI plugins, and how NetworkPolicy enforces ingress/egress isolation

Identify the responsibilities of Istio control-plane and data-plane components, including Istiod, Envoy, and the xDS protocol

Build canary, fault-injection, and circuit-breaking traffic policies using VirtualService and DestinationRule

Apply zero-trust security with STRICT mTLS, PeerAuthentication, AuthorizationPolicy, and JWT RequestAuthentication

Apply observability tooling — Kiali, Jaeger, Prometheus, and Envoy access logs — to debug production microservices

Evaluate multi-cluster topologies, revision-based upgrade strategies, and when to choose Istio vs Linkerd vs Cilium Service Mesh

Design and deploy a production-grade Istio mesh that meets security, reliability, and observability SLOs

Prerequisites

Working Kubernetes knowledge (Deployments, Services, Namespaces) at intermediate level
Comfort with kubectl and YAML manifests
Basic container networking concepts (DNS, ports, IP addressing)
Linux command-line and shell fundamentals
Hands-on experience building and running Docker containers

About the Instructor

Marcus Reid

Expert instructor with hands-on industry experience in Containers.

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LevelAdvanced

Duration13 hours

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Rating4.70 / 5.0

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