Istio – An introduction

An introduction to Istio - Talk at the Cloud Native Computing Meetup in Zurich 2018-01-12

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1. VSHN AG I Neugasse 10 I 8005 Zürich I T 044 545 53 00 www.vshn.ch
   Cloud Native Computing Switzerland 11.1.2018
   Istio – An introduction
   An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices
   Tobias Brunner
   VSHN AG
   

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   /home/tobru
   Tobias Brunner, Head of DevOps VSHN
   @tobruzh, tobias.brunner@vshn.ch
   VSHN AG
   Since 2014, 21 people in Zürich
   Running web applications on-premises and
   in the clouds making both visitors and
   developers happy
   https://vshn.ch @vshn_ch
   

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   Agenda
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   About /me
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   Challenges to solve
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   What is Istio?
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   What is Envoy?
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   Demo
   

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   Challenges to solve
   

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   Challenges to solve
   

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   Challenges to solve
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   Traffic management and shifting
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   Request routing
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   Timeouts
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   Rate limiting
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   Observability
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   Metrics, logs, traces
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   Failure management
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   Discovery
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   Security
   

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   What is Istio?
   An open platform to connect, manage, and
   secure microservices: Service Mesh.
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   Intelligent Routing and Load Balancing
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   Resilience Across Languages and
   Platforms
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   Fleet-Wide Policy Enforcement
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   In-Depth Telemetry and Reporting
   All without code change
   

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   What is Istio? Overall architecture
   

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   What is Istio?
   

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    What is Envoy?
    Core part of Istio
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    Service discovery / health checking
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    Advanced load balancing
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    APIs for confguration management
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    HTTP/2 and gRPC support (Transparent
    HTTP/1.1 to HTTP/2 proxy)
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    Out of process architecture
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    Observability
    

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    Demo! Bookinfo
    

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    Demo! Bookinfo
    

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    Demo!
    demo-script.txt
    

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    End / Questions
    

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