Istio quiz

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What is a "service mesh"?

1. What is a "service mesh"?
2. How do you enable Istio's sidecar injection for a Kubernetes namespace?
3. What is a "sidecar proxy" in Istio's architecture?
4. What proxy does Istio use for its sidecars?
5. What is an Istio "ingress gateway"?
6. What is a common operational cost/trade-off of adopting a service mesh like Istio?
7. What is Istio's control plane component called?
8. What is mTLS (mutual TLS), and how does Istio typically provide it?
9. What is Istio?
10. What is a "circuit breaker" pattern, as supported by Istio's DestinationRule settings?
11. What is "fault injection" used for in Istio?
12. What observability capabilities does Istio typically provide out of the box for mesh traffic?

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