Managing complex applications in production require the operators to have more visibility into different portions of the application, specifically the communication between different services.

As a DevOps engineer, service meshes can help you gain more visibility into service communication. They can make it easier to manage security, traffic and other aspects of the service communication.

The Learn Istio Service Mesh video course and Istio book help you understand what service mesh is about and give you a bunch of practical examples on how to use it.

Focused on the practical examples.

There are numerous articles and tutorials out there that focus more on the theoretical knowledge and high-level overviews of service meshes.

In the past years, I traveled around the world and delivered numerous talks and workshops on Kubernetes, cloud-native development and Istio.

One piece of feedback was the same: attendees always enjoyed the practical examples. These examples show you how service mesh features are applicable to your scenarios.

With that in mind, I created Learn Istio Service Mesh video course and Istio book. Both focus on practical scenarios and give you examples (with full source code) on how to get the best out of the Istio service mesh.

Istio book and video course answers questions such as:

What is Istio service mesh and how does it work?

What is Istio service mesh and how does it work? How do I get started with Istio?

How do I get started with Istio? When to use Istio service mesh?

When to use Istio service mesh? How to monitor services using Grafana?

How to monitor services using Grafana? How to route traffic to different services?

How to route traffic to different services? Can I use sticky sessions and session affinity?

Can I use sticky sessions and session affinity? How to test and improve service resiliency?

How to test and improve service resiliency? What are circuit breakers? How to use them with service mesh?

What are circuit breakers? How to use them with service mesh? How to secure your services using Istio service mesh?

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