This lab provides a sandbox to explore features in the Istio service mesh.

… Service Mesh, a dedicated infrastructure layer to run fast, reliable and secure network of microservices, container orchestration systems to provide a higher level of deployment infrastructure abstraction, and evolution of continuous delivery systems [sic] to build, test and deploy microservices as containers. – Zhamak Dehghani

Before the sandbox is fully ready, there are a few steps needed to complete the sandbox configuration:

• Istio
• Istio integrations
• Bookinfo demonstration application

These setup steps allow you to tweak each installation, such as the version of Istio to use. You can skip the integrations or the Bookinfo application. It’s up to you on how you want to configure this sandbox.

Learn and enjoy.