Micro-Services Day 2 Networking

These are the labs for an Istio based training on day 2 networking. This is very hands on with more focus on demo and lab time than on slides. It leverages an micro-services built application which is a react front-end showing vehicle tracking in the UK, multiple services for vehicle similuation. The application provides an opportunity to work on common networking issues and evaluate the istio suite of services. The application itself isn't part of the course.

• Lab 1 - General Setup and debugging an unknown application
• Lab 2 - Deep dive into Telemetry with Kiali, Jaeger and Grafana
• Lab 3 - Controlling traffic with Istio and Kiali
• Lab 4 - Istio Gateways and Controlling Ingress Traffic
• Lab 5 - Dark Releases
• Lab 6 - Circuit Breakers

Requirements

• git / github access
• docker
• minikube
• internet connectivity to fetch images (large)
• lots of memory (8GB min)