Learn how Istio can help you with your functions by providing a service mesh.
Service meshes have become popular add-ons for Kubernetes, so much so that they have their own ServiceMeshCon days at KubeCon, the official Kubernetes conference.
A service mesh can be used to apply policies to network communication, encrypt traffic between endpoints and for advanced routing.
Istio is one of the most popular service meshes available for use with Kubernetes and with help from the team at Google, we’ve recently updated the support and documentation for using Istio with OpenFaaS.
In this blog post we’ll give you a quick introduction so that you can start integrating Istio with OpenFaaS. We’ll then go on to show you how to measure the resource consumption of the cluster, and how to create a TLS certificate for the Istio Gateway.
We are using arkade, the open source marketplace to download CLIs and to install the apps we need. You can also do this the hard way if you prefer, just refer to the documentation or the helm chart for more.
