Guides

Guides include a variety of fully working example uses for Istio that you can experiment with.

Bookinfo. This guide deploys a sample application composed of four separate microservices which will be used to demonstrate various features of the Istio service mesh.
Intelligent Routing. This guide demonstrates how to use various traffic management capabilities of an Istio service mesh.
In-Depth Telemetry. This sample demonstrates how to obtain uniform metrics, logs, traces across different services using Istio Mixer and Istio sidecar.
Integrating Virtual Machines. This sample deploys the Bookinfo services across Kubernetes and a set of virtual machines, and illustrates how to use the Istio service mesh to control this infrastructure as a single mesh.