OpenShift Commons Briefing Summary
In this briefing, Red Hat's Chak Jonagam gave an introduction to Istio. Istio is an open platform that provides a uniform way to connect, manage, and secure microservices. Istio supports managing traffic flows between microservices, enforcing access policies, and aggregating telemetry data, all without requiring changes to the microservice code. Istio currently works with both the Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms.
Istio gives you automatic load balancing for HTTP, gRPC, and TCP traffic, and fine-grained control of traffic behavior with rich routing rules, retries, failovers, and fault injection. It also provides a pluggable policy layer, configuration API supporting access controls, rate limits and quotas, automatic metrics, logs, traces for all traffic within a cluster, including cluster ingress and egress, and secure service-to-service authentication with strong identity assertions between services in a cluster.
This briefing includes a demonstration covering the following aspects of Istio:
1) Deploying Istio on OpenShift.
2) Deploying an example microservices shopping cart application.
3) Showing various Istio features like advanced canary testing, request tracing, application metrics, fault injection, policy enforcement, circuit breaking, etc.
Here's the link to the slide from the presentation: OpenShift Commons Briefing Introduction to Istio
Here's link to the quick start with the OpenShift Origin specific details: https://istio.io/docs/setup/kubernetes/quick-start.html
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Learn More at the Next OpenShift Commons Gathering in Austin Dec 5th,
Red Hatters, CNCF/Kubernetes project leads, and numerous other members of the OpenShift Commons will be gathering together in Austin for the upcoming OpenShift Commons Gathering co-located with Kubecon at the Austin Convention Center. Register now to reserve your seat at this day-long event!
More Austin Gathering details here: http://openshiftgathering.com/openshiftgathering/austin
OpenShift Commons Briefings Playlist
You can find a playlist of all previously recorded SIG meetings and OpenShift Commons Briefings on YouTube.
Don't forget to leave your feedback and suggestions for each video on YouTube or in the comments section below. This will be incredibly important to shape this Special Interest Group and create sessions that fit the demands of all the OpenShift developers in the community.
About OpenShift Commons
OpenShift Commons is the place for organizations that are part of the OpenShift community to connect with peers and other related open source technology communities to communicate and collaborate across all OpenShift projects and stakeholders.
The Commons' goal is to foster collaboration and communication between OpenShift stakeholders to drive success for all members, and expand & facilitate points of connection between members for sharing knowledge and experience to help drive success for the platform and for participants: customers, users, partners, and contributors.
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