In this chapter, you have learned how to build your Kubernetes environment from the ground up using Helm and the Kubernetes dashboard. This book is not about teaching Kubernetes. However, it might be useful if you build your single VM Kubernetes environment on Windows or macOS. By doing so, you do not have to spend money to spin up compute instance(s) in a public cloud to learn the service mesh. This environment will help you to practice the hands-on experiments of different service mesh architectures in the upcoming sections.

You will now begin your journey of exploring three major service mesh architectures: Istio, Consul, and Linkerd. In the next chapter, you will learn about Istio's architecture.