Set up Istio service mesh in a kubernetes cluster for a shipment tracking microservice app along with addons like Kiali dashboard, Jaeger tracing and Prometheus + Grafana for monitoring. Used Istio to improve the cluster's performance and security with canary releases, traffic management, circuit breaking and TLS encryption for inter-pod communication.
Converted an old laptop into a Kubernetes home lab by installing the Proxmox VE virtualization platform and then setting up a fully functional Kubernetes cluster on an Ubuntu Server VM. Used Kubeadm to install Kubernetes with containerd pods and Calico as the CNI Provider.Â