Learn to build, secure, and scale resilient microservices with hands-on training in Istio and Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh. Master service traffic control, observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Jaeger, and deploy production-ready strategies like canary releases and circuit breakers. Ideal for DevOps engineers, platform teams, and developers aiming for Istio or Red Hat EX328 certification.
In today’s cloud-native landscape, organizations are increasingly adopting microservices architecture to gain speed, flexibility, and scalability. But microservices come with their own challenges—unpredictable service communication, lack of visibility, insecure service interactions, and deployment risks. This is where Istio service mesh and Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh play a critical role.
This course gives you deep, hands-on experience with service mesh on OpenShift, based on the curriculum of Red Hat’s DO328. You’ll walk through every major component of the Istio ecosystem, including Envoy proxies, control plane, Prometheus, Grafana, Kiali, and Jaeger, and apply those tools through real-world scenarios and lab exercises.
Throughout the training, you’ll learn to trace service behavior, control and route service traffic intelligently, test failure scenarios using chaos engineering, and apply security policies like mutual TLS and authorization across the mesh. Everything is designed to reflect real production environments, ensuring you’re ready for practical implementation or certification.
By the end of this DO328 training, you will be able to:
Learning how to build, observe, and secure microservices at scale is no longer optional—it’s a required skill for modern DevOps and cloud-native teams.
With this course, you’ll move beyond the basics of Kubernetes into advanced microservices practices. You’ll gain direct, applicable knowledge that aligns with real enterprise infrastructure, allowing you to:
To make the most of this course, learners should have:
This course is ideal for:
Once you’ve completed the Building Resilient Microservices with Istio and Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh training, you’ll be fully prepared to move forward in two ways — by validating your skills with a global certification, or by deepening your expertise through advanced training.
You’ll be ready to attempt:
▪️ Red Hat EX328 Certification
Exam Name: Building Resilient Microservices with Istio and Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Exam Format: Lab-based, 3 hours, performance-focused
▪️ Istio Certified Associate (ICA)
Offered by: Linux Foundation
Exam Format: Online proctored, 60 questions, scenario + MCQs
Both certifications prove your ability to design, deploy, and manage secure, observable, and scalable microservices using Istio and OpenShift and are highly recognized by employers across DevOps and cloud-native roles.
If you want to build on your learning, we recommend the following next steps:
