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Bootstrapping Service Mesh Implementations with Istio

You're reading from   Bootstrapping Service Mesh Implementations with Istio Build reliable, scalable, and secure microservices on Kubernetes with Service Mesh

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246819
Length 418 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anand Rai Anand Rai
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: The Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Service Meshes FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Getting Started with Istio 4. Chapter 3: Understanding Istio Control and Data Planes 5. Part 2: Istio in Practice
6. Chapter 4: Managing Application Traffic 7. Chapter 5: Managing Application Resiliency 8. Chapter 6: Securing Microservices Communication 9. Chapter 7: Service Mesh Observability 10. Part 3: Scaling, Extending,and Optimizing
11. Chapter 8: Scaling Istio to Multi-Cluster Deployments Across Kubernetes 12. Chapter 9: Extending Istio Data Plane 13. Chapter 10: Deploying Istio Service Mesh for Non-Kubernetes Workloads 14. Chapter 11: Troubleshooting and Operating Istio 15. Chapter 12: Summarizing What We Have Learned and the Next Steps 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix – Other Service Mesh Technologies

Why extensibility

As with any good architecture, extensibility is very important because there is no one size fits all approach to technology that can adapt to every application. Extensibility is important in Istio as it provides options to users to build corner cases and extend Istio as per their individual needs. In the early days of Istio and Envoy, the projects took different approaches to build extensibility. Istio took the approach of building a generic out-of-process extension model called Mixer (https://istio.io/v1.6/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/mixer-overview/), whereas Envoy focused on in-proxy extensions (https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/extending/extending). Mixer is now deprecated; it was a plugin-based implementation used for building extensions (also called adaptors) for various infrastructure backends. Some examples of adapters are Bluemix, AWS, Prometheus, Datadog, and SolarWinds. These adapters allowed Istio to interface with various kinds...

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