Discover how to enhance your cloud development with Istio, a powerful technology supporting a service-mesh based connectivity model for microservice applications in a distributed management environment like Kubernetes. Services mesh in general, and Istio specifically, addresses some of the key issues that development teams run into when building microservices-based systems. In this course, instructor Robert Starmer shows how to enable Istio and integrate it into any Kubernetes-based application environment, highlighting key aspects of the Istio service mesh along the way. Robert covers how to approach traffic routing and load balancing; establish MTLS credentials and connect to non-MTLS services; improve microservice robustness; and more.