Concepts

Learn about the different parts of the Istio system and the abstractions it uses.

Introduces Istio, the problems it solves, its high-level architecture and design goals.

Describes the various Istio features focused on traffic routing and control.

Describes Istio's authorization and authentication functionality.

Describes the policy enforcement and telemetry mechanisms.

Introduces performance and scalability for Istio.

Describes how a service mesh can be configured to include services from more than one cluster.