Cloud-Native Engineering: Kubernetes & Istio

Kubernetes orchestrates containers; you cannot operate it without deep container and Linux kernel literacy.

Understand every control-plane and node component before deploying anything.

The primitives you deploy applications with every day.

Decouple config from images and manage sensitive data safely.

The flat pod network, services, and how traffic actually flows.

Persisting data in an ephemeral, scheduler-driven world.

Control where pods land and how cluster resources are shared.

Scale workloads and infrastructure to match demand and cost.

Lock down identity, access, workloads, and the supply chain.

Manage manifests at scale and deploy declaratively from Git.

Metrics, logs, traces, and events to run clusters with confidence.

Why meshes exist and the architecture they impose before touching Istio.

Istio's components, install profiles, and injection model.

Shape, route, and harden service-to-service traffic.

Identity, encryption, and authorization across the mesh.

Golden signals, topology, and tracing the mesh gives you for free.

Scale Istio across clusters, networks, and meshes.

Run, upgrade, recover, and harden clusters in production.