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ICA · 2 days (14 h)
ICA Exam Preparation — Istio Certified Associate
The service mesh without the fog: hands-on Istio — traffic, resilience, mTLS — all the way to the ICA exam.
Objectives
- Pass the ICA exam
- Install and upgrade Istio cleanly
- Steer traffic: canary, mirroring, fault injection
- Encrypt service-to-service traffic with mTLS and write AuthorizationPolicies
Audience
Platform engineers and SREs deploying or considering a service mesh on their clusters.
Prerequisites
- Good working knowledge of Kubernetes: Deployments, Services
- Networking notions: DNS, TLS, load balancing
Program
Installation and configuration
- Installation profiles and istioctl
- Sidecars and ambient mode: understanding both
- Zero-downtime upgrades
Traffic management
- Gateways, VirtualServices, DestinationRules
- Canary deployments and mirroring
- Timeouts and retries
Resilience and fault injection
- Circuit breaking and outlier detection
- Fault injection to test your assumptions
Securing workloads, and mock exam
- mTLS: from permissive to strict mode
- AuthorizationPolicies and identities
- Mock exam and revision strategy
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