behradeslamifar / Istio-Certified-Associate

Istio-Certified-Associate

Prepare a Lab

• Istio Lab
• killercoda.com: Scenario for the ICA

Understanding Service Mesh and Istio

• istio.io: Isitio Architecture
• istio.io: Concepts Documents

Exam Objectives

These are the exam objectives you review and understand in order to pass the test.

• github.com: CNCF Exam Curriculum repository
• linuxfoundation.org: ICA Home Page
• Resources allowed during the examp

Istio Installation, Upgrade & Configuration 7%

• Using the Istio CLI to install a basic cluster
  • youtube.com: Mesh Week (Session 1)
  • istio.io: Installation Configuration Profiles
  • istio.io: Introducing istiod: simplifying the control plane
• Customizing the Istio installation with the IstioOperator API
• Using overlays to manage Istio component settings

Traffic Management 40%

• Controlling network traffic flows within a service mesh
  • youtube.com: Mesh Week (Session 2)
  • solo.io: Istio Networking in Depth
  • istio.io: Traffic Shifting
• Configuring sidecar injection
• Using the Gateway resource to configure ingress and egress traffic
  • istio.io: Egress Gateway
  • istio.io: Virtualservice
• Understanding how to use ServiceEntry resources for adding entries to internal service registry
  • solo.io: Istio multi-cluster traffic
• Define traffic policies using DestinationRule
• Configure traffic mirroring capabilities
  • envoyproxy.io: HTTP route components

Resilience and Fault Injection 20%

• Configuring circuit breakers (with or without outlier detection)
• Using resilience features
• Creating fault injection
  • istio.io: Fault injection
  • istio.io: Commands

Securing Workloads 20%

• Understand Istio security features
  • youtube.com: Mesh Week (Session 4)
• Set up Istio authorization for HTTP/TCP traffic in the mesh
  • istio.io: HTTP Traffic (task for authorization policy)
• Configure mutual TLS at mesh, namespace, and workload levels
  • istio.io: Mutual TLS Migration (task)

Advanced Scenarios 13%

• Understand how to onboard non-Kubernetes workloads to the mesh
  • istio.io: Virtual Machine Artichitecture
  • istio.io: Bookinfo with a Virtual Machine (example)
  • youtube.com: Mesh Week (Session 5)
• Troubleshoot configuration issues

Other resources

• academy.solo.io: ServiceMesh and CNI free courses
• academy.tetrate.io: ServiceMesh free cources
• github.com: Mesh Week Videos
• github.com: Blog posts about ICA
• docs.google.com: Mock Istio Examp - Mesh Week

Books

• Istio in Action
• Istio Up and Running
• Bootstrapping Service Mesh Implementations with Istio (I dont recommend this book, not organize well)