Istio An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices
summary
Istio 0.2 claims to push service-to-service features out of app code into a network layer by injecting an Envoy sidecar per pod on Kubernetes, controlled by pilot and mixer. It provides mTLS encryption, circuit breakers, retries, timeouts, fault injection and observability (metrics + Zipkin tracing), plus HTTP/gRPC protocol awareness and HTTP-level traffic splitting for canary/A-B releases. Demo deploys a reactor app and shows rules working; project is new (released last week), not yet production-ready, and adds only ~1–2 ms proxy overhead.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:27Moving to the cloud
- 7:43What is missing
- 8:46Istio definition
- 10:35Smart network
- 10:53Kubernetes
- 12:16Service Proxy
- 19:00Egress Controller
- 20:56Reactor
- 21:34Furman
- 22:44Kubernetes Demo
- 25:56Circuit Breaker
- 27:20Load Balancing
- 27:49Load Balancing Algorithm
- 30:53Fault Injection
- 32:03Traffic Management
- 34:13User Segmentation
- 36:11Network
- 40:51Roadmap
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