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Istio Learning Roadmap

Service mesh traffic management, security, and observability for Kubernetes.

Estimated time:4–6 weeks

1🌱

Phase 1 — Fundamentals

Sidecar proxy model (Envoy)

Control plane (istiod) architecture

Installing Istio (istioctl, profiles)

Sidecar injection (automatic/manual)

2🔀

VirtualServices & DestinationRules

Canary & blue-green routing

Retries, timeouts, circuit breaking

Ingress/Egress Gateways

3🔐

AuthorizationPolicies

PeerAuthentication & RequestAuthentication

4📊

important

Distributed tracing integration

Kiali for mesh visualization

Multi-cluster mesh federation

Sizing sidecar resource overhead

Begin with interview questions to assess your current level.