Before you begin

Before you begin you need to make sure you have the prerequisites in place.

Minimum knowledge

It’s recommended that you have a minimum knowledge about Istio, Anthos Service Mesh (ASM), Anthos Config Management (ACM), GitOps, etc. Here is a list of resources you could leverage to get some familiarities depending on where you are at with these concepts:

• What Is Kubernetes?
• Managing Kubernetes with Config Sync
• Using Config Connector for Google Cloud resource management
• Automating infrastructure compliance with Policy Controller
• Istio in 5 minutes
• ASM Value over Istio
• Cloud Armor in a minute
• Memorystore in a minute
• Cloud Operations Suite in a minute

Based on these introductions, here are higly recommended resources to watch before running this workshop:

• Organizing Teams for GitOps and Cloud Native Deployments
• ACM @ Goldman Sachs
• Enforcing Service Mesh Structure using OPA Gatekeeper
• Managing microservice architectures with ASM

Your setup to run this workshop

You can run this workshop on Cloud Shell or on your local machine running Linux. Cloud Shell pre-installs all the required tools.

Install the required tools:

• gcloud
• kubectl
• kustomize
• git
• gh (GitHub CLI)
• kpt
• curl
• nomos
• docker
• crane
• helm

You need to have:

• GCP account with the role owner in your Organization in order to deploy the resources needed for this workshop
• GitHub account, it’s free. We will leverage GitHub throughout this workshop.