Someone reached out on LinkedIn asking me for resources to prepare for the Istio Certified Associate (ICA) certification. I compiled a list and thought of sharing it here. Maybe it’s helpful to others. I did not personally read/watch all this material; just did some digging and came up with these resources: - Tetrate Academy academy.tetrate.io/collectio…. Since Tetrate was the original maintainer of the ICA certification, Their courses should be the first place to look. I read the fundamentals of Envoy course, and it’s good. - Service Mesh fundamentals (LFS243) from LF training.linuxfoundation.org… - Introduction to Istio (LFS144x) from LF training.linuxfoundation.org… - Mesh Week. A series of videos by @learn_cnative @virtualized6ix and @bongo. youtube.com/playlist?list=PL… - The blog from @learn_cnative has some good Service Mesh articles learncloudnative.com/categor… - The Book “Istio Up and Running” is a good reference. I read it partially: oreilly.com/library/view/ist… - We created a Study Group Slack channel on the CNCF Slack cloud-native.slack.com/archi… For hands-on practice, you can use any cloud provider and look at the istio.io/latest/ docs. But If you don’t want to spend a lot of money. Minikube, Kind or k3s are good alternatives. The Istio documentation has some setup guides for these: - istio.io/latest/docs/setup/p… - istio.io/latest/docs/setup/p… - istio.io/latest/docs/setup/p… Everything listed above from the Linux Foundation(LF), including the exam itself, can be purchased with the Cyber Monday discount until Dec 4th. Check it out bit.ly/3t0hiVb