Topics:

• Introduction to Anthos Service Mesh
• Architecture
• Installation
• Life of a request in the mesh
• Mesh telemetry and instrumentation
• Anthos Service Mesh dashboards
• Anthos Service Mesh pricing and support

Objectives:

• Understand the benefits of Anthos Service Mesh, including running distributed services across clusters and enhancing service observability, traffic management, and security.
• Install Anthos Service Mesh on different Anthos clusters and choose capabilities depending on the level of management and automation you want.
• Collect workload telemetry including metrics, traces, and logs, and learn to visualize your services on the Anthos Service Mesh dashboards.
• Understand Anthos Service Mesh and the capabilities, limitations, and costs of running it on different Anthos clusters.

Topics:

• Networking and service discovery
• Anthos Service Mesh API resources
• Network resilience and testing

Objectives:

• Understand how Anthos Service Mesh learns the network from Kubernetes and builds on top to provide advanced routing capabilities.
• Deploy mesh API resources such as the VirtualService, DestinationRule, Gateway, Service Entry, and the sidecar to configure the mesh.
• Harden the mesh network by introducing new functionality such as request retries, request timeouts, and circuit breakers.
• Test the mesh network by creating failures and delays on specific services to improve the overall resilience.

Topics:

• Security across services
• Authentication and encryption
• Service authentication in the mesh
• End-user authentication in the mesh
• Authorization in the mesh
• Bonus: Employee authentication and authorization in the mesh

Objectives:

• Encrypt traffic between microservices to prevent anyone in the network from accessing private information.
• Authorize services and requests; ensuring that services only access the information that is allowed access from other services.
• Authenticate services and requests to verify trust among services in the mesh and among end users.
• Limit service access in the network so that granular controls over the communication can be established.

Topics:

• Fleet networking
• Single network east-west routing
• Multiple network east-west routings
• North-south routing

Objectives:

• Understand how to do multi-cluster networking, both north-south and east-west routing, with different network configurations.
• Learn how to configure east-west networking on different Anthos clusters running on multi-cloud and hybrid locations with Anthos Service Mesh.
• Install Anthos Service Mesh on different Anthos GKE clusters, and choose the right network configuration depending on where you want to run your cluster.
• Combine Anthos Service Mesh with multi-cluster Gateways and multi-cluster services (MCS) to seamlessly run distributed services.