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Learn about Istio, Envoy proxy, eBPF, service mesh, and API gateways from the leaders in application networking
Solo Academy is the industry leader in instructor led and on-demand training, with courses created by founding Istio project maintainers, current and former Istio Steering Committee members, and Istio Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) members.
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FREE Instructor led workshops and on-demand courses
Courses cover advanced topics including security at the edge, integrating DevOps/GitOps/CI/CD workflows, zero-downtime upgrades, federated, observability & debugging, multi-cluster management and much more
Attend Hands-on Workshops
Earn official certification badges to show that you understand Istio service mesh, eBPF, and more.
APAC Workshop: Get Started with Istio with Certification Option
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US Workshop: Get Started with Istio Ambient Mesh with Certification Option
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Introductory Courses
New to Istio? Learn the basics through the “Get Started with Istio” interactive course and the “Istio Foundation Certification” exam.
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Intermediate Courses
Already know something about Istio? Skill up with the “Deploy Istio” interactive course and the “Istio Essentials Certification” exam.
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Want to work through courses in real time with an expert instructor? Register for our award-winning, hands on live workshops in the time zone that works best for you.
US Workshop: Network Building Blocks for Cloud-Native with Certification Option
Networking is the foundational fabric that allows for various computers, servers and everything in between to communicate, exchange data and information: understanding how data moves is critical. As many microservices are built and deployed onto container systems like Kubernetes, it’s sometimes challenging to understand where traffic goes, how we communicate with our applications, how we decipher network protocols and the various messaging that could be present. Many understand that a network is always going to be there but, how do we understand it better and interact with or modify it to our need?
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December 7, 2022
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EMEA Workshop: Fundamentals for eBPF Workshop with Certification Option
eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is a revolutionary Linux technology that can run sandboxed programs in an operating system kernel to safely and efficiently extend the capabilities of the kernel without requiring changes to kernel source code or load kernel modules. In this workshop, you will learn about eBPF and the different ways to create eBPF programs, create your first eBPF program using BCC and libbpf, build and deploy an eBPF program with BumbleBee, and more
December 7, 2022
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US Workshop: Using Envoy Proxy as a GraphQL Engine
In this workshop, we will learn how to use Gloo Edge to automatically discover services and create a GraphQL schema and use Gloo Edge to create a GraphQL resolver that calls different services and uses them in a schema. You will also learn how to protect your GraphQL with an API Key and prevent Data Loss and explore the Gloo Edge UI to view, create, or test your GraphQL API.
December 8, 2022
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US Workshop: Deploy Istio for Production with Certification Option
Dive into Istio foundations with a focus on understanding how it all works and how to roll it out to your organization. Istio is a powerful tool, but learning how to deploy it, configure it, debug it, and secure it has many challenges. This is not an entry level workshop to learn about Istio. This workshop includes a certification option. This credential, by Solo.io, certifies that recipients possess the essential skills to deploy Istio, configure it, debug it, secure it and operationalize it for their organization.
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December 14, 2022
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EMEA Workshop: Introduction to Cilium with Certification Option
Cilium is an open source software for providing, securing and observing network connectivity between container workloads - cloud native, and fueled by the revolutionary Kernel technology eBPF. In this workshop, you will learn the essential skills to deploy the Cilium CNI on a test Kubernetes cluster, gather metrics and enforce network policies. At the completion of the workshop, you will be able to take an assessment and with a score 80% or higher you will earn the “Fundamentals for Cilium” credential, offered by Solo.io with Credly.
December 14, 2022
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APAC Workshop: Zero Trust Architecture
Gloo Platform can help you implement key architecture principles of Zero Trust Architecture. In this workshop we will go through implementation of pillars like Don’t Trust Anything, Verify Everything and Service Isolation.
December 14, 2022
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US Workshop: Fundamentals for Envoy Workshop with Certification Option
Envoy Proxy is a foundational layer for many of the innovations propelling the cloud-native community, including service meshes and cloud-native API gateways. But many engineers understand Envoy only as a black-box, hidden by simplifying levels of abstraction. In this workshops, participants will explore first principles regarding Envoy architecture, filter chains, and a day-in-the-life of a request. Users will then put those principles to work to understand how to configure Envoy and debug real-world problems.
December 15, 2022
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APAC Workshop: Get Started with Istio with Certification Option
The Get Started with Istio workshop explains how to get started with Istio and explore various functions Istio provides to your organization. A "Foundation for Istio" certification option is included.
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December 15, 2022
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US Workshop: Get Started with Istio Ambient Mesh with Certification Option
Istio Ambient Mesh implements a “sidecarless” architecture which is transparent to the workloads in the mesh. This approach has a number of benefits including incremental adoption, improved operations and more. This hands-on course will help you better understand how Istio Ambient Mesh works.
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December 21, 2022
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Ready to get started right away? These on-demand courses cover the same materials as the instroctor led workshops, including hands on tutorials and certifications, but on demand at your own pace.
Intermediate Courses
Already know something about Istio? Skill up with the “Deploy Istio” interactive course and the “Istio Essentials Certification” exam.
Introductory Courses
New to Istio? Learn the basics through the “Get Started with Istio” interactive course and the “Istio Foundation Certification” exam.
Learn from the Experts
Courses and certifications created by the founding Istio project maintainers as well as current and former Istio Steering committee members, Istio Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) members and pioneers who first ran Istio in production environments.
Christian Posta
Founding community member, Istio Steering Committee, author Istio in Action
Lin Sun
Founding Istio project maintainer, Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), Steering Committee
Ram Vennam
Founding Istio Steering Committee member
Nick Nellis
First to run Istio in production, current contributor and maintainer
Neeraj Poddar
Istio Steering and TOC member. Co-founded Istio Product Security Working Group.
Solo Academy Testimonials
Great and long session, learnt a lot of stuff. Thank you so much team for arranging this workshop
Gopinath A.
This is one of the few expert sources I have seen around for Istio education. Usually coursses just follow the documentation from istio.io, but your workshop had all original content that was AMAZING.
Skip A.
Very happy with the workshop.
Christian A.
Absolutely loved the workshop. The hands-on platform was amazing and added more interaction to the workshop and allowed us attendees to try the enterprise tools ourselves without having to install all of the necessary tools/dependencies….
Oscar G.
Great workshop. Thank you
Alberto P.
The coursework solo academy has created is amazing. They have deep expertise with Istio, Kubernetes and Envoy and understand not just the theory, but how to make Istio run in production. There knowledge comes through in the every course