Cloud Native Workshops

Join Layer5 at the inaugural Istio conference on Monday, Feb. 22nd to Friday, Feb. 26th. IstioCon is a 100% virtual event that is designed to connect community members across the globe with Istio and the Istio ecosystem.

Layer5 will kickoff the event with our renowned service mesh workshop, featuring Meshery, the service mesh manager. Attend our workshop to help you get started with managing your own service mesh!

Using Istio

As the third phase in your microservices journey, service meshes provide a substrate of secure connectivity, uniform visibility and granular control over service requests. Service meshes have quickly entered the cloud native landscape filling unmet service-level needs. Organizations that have adopted containers and who are running a handful or more of microservices find tools to provide observability, control and security lacking. Operating at layer 5, service meshes promise much value. This live training walks you through a series of hands-on labs, introducing you to each and every aspect of the popular service mesh - Istio. During this workshop you will gain hands-on experience as we walk through deploying Istio alongside microservices running in Kubernetes.

• Configure and operate Istio in context of an example workloads and their common use cases
• Manage traffic through load balancing and resilient communications
• Enforce policies and rate limiting
• Be confident with ongoing management of Istio
• Understand WebAssembly filters for Envoy and deploy a custom filter

Workshop Labs

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Workshop Slides

Workshop Recording

By the end of this live, hands-on, online course, you’ll understand:

• How to manage traffic through load balancing and resilient communications.
• How to enforce policies and rate limiting.
• Istio's methods for managing telemetry, monitoring and reporting.
• Approaches to canary deployments and securing communication with Istio.

Advanced Istio - O'Reilly Live Online Training

By the end of this live, hands-on, online course, you’ll understand:

• How to manage traffic through load balancing and resilient communications.
• How to enforce policies and rate limiting.
• Linkerd's methods for managing telemetry, monitoring and reporting.
• Approaches to canary deployments and securing communication with Linkerd.

Service Mesh Fundamentals with Linkerd - O'Reilly Live Online Training

In the adoption of cloud native technologies, engineers find one of the greatest challenges is the management of their services as distributed systems. Service meshes have quickly entered the cloud native landscape filling unmet service-level needs. Service management challenges include service discovery, load balancing, fault tolerance, end-to-end monitoring, dynamic routing for canary deployments and securing communication. Which service mesh should you use? What are their performance characteristics? What are best practices to on boarding your applications to a mesh? As a service mesh, Istio addresses these problems by providing a layer of infrastructure between the services and network that allows service communication to be controlled outside the application code.

During this workshop, you will gain hands-on experience by deploying different service meshes running sample applications on top of Kubernetes. Using Meshery, a multi-service mesh management plane, we will walk through a series of labs in which various service meshes are deployed and their functionality explored. Functionality such as:

• Traffic Management, Resilient Communication and Load Balancing
• Policy Enforcement and Rate Limiting
• Telemetry, Monitoring and Reporting
• Securing Communication
• Canary Deployments

Using Service Meshes Workshop - OSCON 2020

In the adoption of cloud native technologies, engineers find one of the greatest challenges is the management of their services as distributed systems. Service meshes have quickly entered the cloud native landscape filling unmet service-level needs. Service management challenges include service discovery, load balancing, fault tolerance, end-to-end monitoring, dynamic routing for canary deployments and securing communication. Which service mesh should you use? What are their performance characteristics? What are best practices to on boarding your applications to a mesh? As a service mesh, Istio addresses these problems by providing a layer of infrastructure between the services and network that allows service communication to be controlled outside the application code.

During this workshop, you will gain hands-on experience by deploying different service meshes running sample applications on top of Kubernetes. Using Meshery, a multi-service mesh management plane, we will walk through a series of labs in which various service meshes are deployed and their functionality explored. Functionality such as:

• Traffic Management, Resilient Communication and Load Balancing
• Policy Enforcement and Rate Limiting
• Telemetry, Monitoring and Reporting
• Securing Communication
• Canary Deployments

In the adoption of cloud native technologies, engineers find one of the greatest challenges is the management of their services as distributed systems. Service meshes have quickly entered the cloud native landscape filling unmet service-level needs. Service management challenges include service discovery, load balancing, fault tolerance, end-to-end monitoring, dynamic routing for canary deployments and securing communication. Which service mesh should you use? What are their performance characteristics? What are best practices to on boarding your applications to a mesh? As a service mesh, Istio addresses these problems by providing a layer of infrastructure between the services and network that allows service communication to be controlled outside the application code.

During this workshop, you will gain hands-on experience by deploying different service meshes running sample applications on top of Kubernetes. Using Meshery, a multi-service mesh management plane, we will walk through a series of labs in which various service meshes are deployed and their functionality explored. Functionality such as:

• Traffic Management, Resilient Communication and Load Balancing
• Policy Enforcement and Rate Limiting
• Telemetry, Monitoring and Reporting
• Securing Communication
• Canary Deployments

Using Service Meshes Workshop - Infrastructure & Ops 2020

In the adoption of cloud native technologies, engineers find one of the greatest challenges is the management of their services as distributed systems. Service meshes have quickly entered the cloud native landscape filling unmet service-level needs. Service management challenges include service discovery, load balancing, fault tolerance, end-to-end monitoring, dynamic routing for canary deployments and securing communication. Which service mesh should you use? What are their performance characteristics? What are best practices to on boarding your applications to a mesh? As a service mesh, Istio addresses these problems by providing a layer of infrastructure between the services and network that allows service communication to be controlled outside the application code.

During this workshop, you will gain hands-on experience by deploying different service meshes running sample applications on top of Kubernetes. Using Meshery, a multi-service mesh management plane, we will walk through a series of labs in which various service meshes are deployed and their functionality explored. Functionality such as:

• Traffic Management, Resilient Communication and Load Balancing
• Policy Enforcement and Rate Limiting
• Telemetry, Monitoring and Reporting
• Securing Communication
• Canary Deployments

Which service mesh should I use and how do I get started? What are the different service meshes, and how do their architectures contrast?

This talk introduces Meshery, an open source, multi-service mesh management plane that provisions (six and counting) different service meshes, their sample applications and benchmarks the performance of service mesh deployments. Meshery facilitates benchmarking various configuration scenarios of service meshes, comparison of performance of services (applications) on and off the mesh and across different meshes. It vets mesh and services configuration against deployment best practices.

Attendees will be empowered with the ability to quickly deploy different service meshes in which they may learn how service meshes function and how each differs from the next, so that they may select the best-fit-for-purpose service mesh for their workloads and their environment.

Solving the Service Mesh Adopter’s Dilemma - Open Source 101 at Home 2020

Which service mesh should I use and how do I get started? What are the different service meshes, and how do their architectures contrast?

This talk introduces Meshery, an open source, multi-service mesh management plane that provisions (six and counting) different service meshes, their sample applications and benchmarks the performance of service mesh deployments. Meshery facilitates benchmarking various configuration scenarios of service meshes, comparison of performance of services (applications) on and off the mesh and across different meshes. It vets mesh and services configuration against deployment best practices.

Attendees will be empowered with the ability to quickly deploy different service meshes in which they may learn how service meshes function and how each differs from the next, so that they may select the best-fit-for-purpose service mesh for their workloads and their environment.

By the end of this live, hands-on, online course, you’ll understand:

• How to manage traffic through load balancing and resilient communications.
• How to enforce policies and rate limiting.
• Istio's methods for managing telemetry, monitoring and reporting.
• Approaches to canary deployments and securing communication with Istio.

Introduction to Istio Workshop - Cloud Native Austin 2020, Austin, TX

As the third phase in your microservices journey, service meshes provide a substrate of secure connectivity, uniform visibility and granular control over service requests. Service meshes have quickly entered the cloud native landscape filling unmet service-level needs. Organizations that have adopted containers and who are running a handful or more of microservices find tools to provide observability, control and security lacking. Operating at layer 5, service meshes promise much value. This live training walks you through a series of hands-on labs, introducing you to each and every aspect of the popular service mesh - Istio. During this workshop you will gain hands-on experience as we walk through deploying Istio alongside microservices running in Kubernetes.

By the end of this live, hands-on, online course, you’ll understand:

• How to manage traffic through load balancing and resilient communications.
• How to enforce policies and rate limiting.
• Istio's methods for managing telemetry, monitoring and reporting.
• Approaches to canary deployments and securing communication with Istio.

Using Service Meshes Workshop - All Things Open 2019, Raleigh, NC

As the third phase in your microservices journey, service meshes provide a substrate of secure connectivity, uniform visibility and granular control over service requests. Service meshes have quickly entered the cloud native landscape filling unmet service-level needs. Organizations that have adopted containers and who are running a handful or more of microservices find tools to provide observability, control and security lacking. Operating at layer 5, service meshes promise much value. This live training walks you through a series of hands-on labs, introducing you to each and every aspect of the popular service mesh - Istio. During this workshop you will gain hands-on experience as we walk through deploying Istio alongside microservices running in Kubernetes.

By the end of this live, hands-on, online course, you’ll understand:

• How to manage traffic through load balancing and resilient communications.
• How to enforce policies and rate limiting.
• Istio's methods for managing telemetry, monitoring and reporting.
• Approaches to canary deployments and securing communication with Istio.

Istio Service Mesh Workshop - Devfest Montreal 2019

As the third phase in your microservices journey, service meshes provide a substrate of secure connectivity, uniform visibility and granular control over service requests. Service meshes have quickly entered the cloud native landscape filling unmet service-level needs. Organizations that have adopted containers and who are running a handful or more of microservices find tools to provide observability, control and security lacking. Operating at layer 5, service meshes promise much value. This live training walks you through a series of hands-on labs, introducing you to each and every aspect of the popular service mesh - Istio. During this workshop you will gain hands-on experience as we walk through deploying Istio alongside microservices running in Kubernetes.

By the end of this live, hands-on, online course, you’ll understand:

• How to manage traffic through load balancing and resilient communications.
• How to enforce policies and rate limiting.
• Istio's methods for managing telemetry, monitoring and reporting.
• Approaches to canary deployments and securing communication with Istio.

Introduction to Istio - O'Reilly Live Online Training

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