Istio

1. What is Istio

   Service mesh purpose, control plane and data plane.

2. Architecture

   Istiod, Envoy sidecars and ambient mode components.

3. Ambient Mode

   ztunnel and waypoint proxies without sidecars.

4. Traffic Management

   VirtualService, DestinationRule, Gateway, ServiceEntry, retries and timeouts.

5. Security

   mTLS, PeerAuthentication, AuthorizationPolicy and RequestAuthentication.

6. Observability

   Metrics, distributed tracing and access logs.

7. Gateways and Ingress

   Ingress gateways, Kubernetes Gateway API.

8. Resilience

   Circuit breaking, fault injection and outlier detection.

9. Installation and Profiles

   Installing with istioctl or Helm, profiles and revisions.

10. Multicluster

    Multicluster topologies and mesh federation.

11. Extensibility

    Wasm plugins and EnvoyFilter.

12. Diagnostics and Troubleshooting

    istioctl analyze, proxy-config and debug tools.

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