Istio Certified Associate (ICA)
The ICA is a pre-professional certification designed for engineers, CI/CD practitioners or anyone with special interests in Istio.
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Description
Own microservices like a pro. Prove your edge in securing, scaling, and managing microservices—plus, show you’re fluent in the service mesh tech cloud native teams rely on every day with the Istio certification, originally developed by Tetrate.
The ICA demonstrates a candidate's solid understanding of Istio principles, terminology, and best practices to set up Istio.
Who it is for
The ICA is a pre-professional certification designed for engineers, CI/CD practitioners or anyone with special interests in Istio.
Curriculum
Installation, Upgrade & Configuration - 20%
- Installing Istio with istioctl or Helm
- Installing Istio in Sidecar or Ambient Mode
- Customizing your Istio Installation
- Upgrading Istio (Canary, In-Place)
Traffic Management - 35%
- Configuring Ingress and Egress Traffic
- Configuring Routing within a Service Mesh
- Defining Traffic Policies with Destination Rules
- Configuring Traffic Shifting
- Connecting In-Mesh Workloads to External Workloads and Services
- Using Resilience Features (circuit breaking, failover, outlier detection, timeouts, retries)
- Using Fault Injection
Securing Workloads - 25%
- Configuring Authorization
- Configuring Authentication (mTLS, JWT)
- Securing Edge Traffic with TLS
Troubleshooting - 20%
- Troubleshooting Configuration
- Troubleshooting the Mesh Control Plane
- Troubleshooting the Mesh Data Plane
How to Register
1. After purchase the exam voucher, please log into your portal LFOSSA website, your exam voucher will be available under "Exam & Learning Voucher" (password-protected).
2. You need an LFID to register for and take Linux Foundation (LF) certification exams. If you already have a Linux Foundation ID (LFID), you can redeem your exam voucher at https://trainingportal.linuxfoundation.org/redeem . If you do not have a LFID, click here (https://trainingportal.linuxfoundation.org/access/saml/login) to create one.
3. Log in to your LF Education portal, enter your exam voucher code in the Enter Registration Code field and click Validate, then check the box: " I agree to The Linux Foundation Training Terms, Conditions & Policies and the Thought Industries Terms & Conditions."
4. A confirmation message “Congrats, your code has been validated” will appear upon successful validation, confirming your voucher is valid. Click Register to complete the exam voucher registration.
5. Log in to LF Education global website with your LFID. After the registration process, the certification exam will be available in the learner's portal within 24 hours, then the candidate will be available to take and schedule exam.
Details
Terms and conditions
The Exam Voucher is non-refundable upon purchase.
Exam Voucher is redeemable within 90 days post-purchase; Exam eligibility will be valid for 1 year from your registration date. You now have 90 days + 365 days for exam preparation!