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Istio Certified Associate (ICA)
Six weeks on running a service mesh
A six-week classroom course that follows the four domains of the Linux Foundation's Istio Certified Associate exam: installation, upgrade and configuration; traffic management; securing workloads; and troubleshooting. Part of the exam is performed on a live cluster, and so is the course. The exam fee is not included.
5Modules
AdvancedLevel
6 weeksDuration
COURSE THUMBNAIL
What you will be able to do
Install and upgrade Istio
Route, shift and protect traffic between services
Enforce mutual TLS and authorization policies
Diagnose a misbehaving mesh
Course outline
01
Installation, upgrade and configuration: istioctl, Helm, sidecar and ambient modes (20%)
02
Traffic management: ingress, egress, routing and destination rules (35%)
03
Traffic management: traffic shifting, resilience and fault injection
04
Securing workloads: authorization, mTLS, JWT and TLS at the edge (25%)
05
Troubleshooting: configuration, the control plane and the data plane (20%)
Tools you will use
IstioistioctlKubernetesHelm
What you need
Kubernetes: deployments, services and networking