Istio In Action

Originally published at http://blog.mp3monster.org on March 25, 2022.

Christian Posta and Rinor Maloku’s book with Manning, Istio In Action has just been published. I’ve previously said it’s a good book, and that’s not surprising given Christian’s role at solo.io. When the final chapters became available I started to go through it in more detail and built a mind map (As with the recent review of Kubernetes best practices). The map can be seen below.

As you can see the map is very substantial reflecting the depth and value of the book. Those who look at the maps may notice there are a couple of chapters not fully mapped. I will update the map to fill those gaps, but given the focus on monitoring and observability, I was less concerned about those areas given my own writing. The book’s exercises are very much built around using Docker Desktop making it very easy to spin up the examples and exercises. If you want to know about Istio Service Mesh on K8s then I’d recommend it.

Reading through the book, I’ve learned details that I was not entirely aware of, for example, the integration of non-K8s workloads into the mesh. The tuning of Istio to keep it highly performant with a lot of workloads.

The book can be obtained from:

And other retailers of course.

Originally published at http://blog.mp3monster.org on March 25, 2022.