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CL-313 Cloud & Platform

Service Mesh & Advanced Traffic Management

Decide whether you need a mesh — then run one well: sidecar and ambient models, mTLS between services, traffic splitting for canaries, retries/timeouts/circuit breaking as configuration, and mesh observability — balanced with an honest cost-of-complexity assessment.

B5Advanced
5modules
34skill atoms
1role journey
Curriculum

What this course covers.

5 modules, 34 named skill atoms. Expand any module to see them.

1Mesh Value Proposition7 skill atoms
problems meshes solvewhen they don't paysidecar vs ambient data plane costoverlap with ingress controllers & client librarieslatency added per hopupgrade and operational burdenprerequisites before adoption
2mTLS & Identity7 skill atoms
service identitycert rotationzero-trust east-westSPIFFE identity from service accountspermissive to strict mTLS migrationAuthorizationPolicy rulesroot CA & trust domain management
3Traffic Control7 skill atoms
splitsmirroringfault injectionVirtualService & DestinationRule subsetsheader-based routingweighted canary progressionshadow traffic without side effects
4Resilience Config7 skill atoms
retriestimeoutscircuit breakersretry storms & retry budgetsidempotency as a retry prerequisiteoutlier detection and ejectiontimeout budget across a call chain
5Observability & Verdict6 skill atoms
golden signals per serviceadopt/defer memoservice graph from mesh telemetrytraces without application changessidecar metric cardinality costmTLS coverage reporting
Where it fits

CL-313 in a role journey.

This course appears in 1 of our 45 role journeys. Here is what a learner takes immediately before and after it in each.

Site Reliability Engineer

Professional stage
CL-402CL-313CL-303

Roles this course serves

The capability ladder

This course is authored to band B5.

Every course we run is written to one rung of the CASI ladder, so a plan can be assembled to take a team from where they are to where they need to be.

What do B1–B6 mean?The CASI Capability Ladder — click to expand

Every course targets a band on the CASI Capability Ladder — our six-band proficiency scale, anchored to open standards (O*NET, ESCO, NICE, NIST AI RMF, Bloom's). A band tells you how deep a course goes, and what evidence proves it.

What the learner can doTypical evidence
B1
AwareUnderstands concepts and vocabulary; uses tools with guidance
Knowledge checks
B2
FoundationPerforms standard tasks correctly in familiar contexts
Guided labs, autograded exercises
B3
PractitionerDelivers complete pieces of work independently
Scenario labs, proctored hands-on exams
B4
ProfessionalHandles production-grade complexity, trade-offs and failure modes
Break-fix drills, design defenses
B5
AdvancedEngineers systems end-to-end under constraints; leads others
Rubric-scored capstones, vivas
B6
ExpertSets direction; recognised authority across teams
Portfolio + panel evaluation

A note on B6. Courses in this catalog target B1–B5. B6 is not taught — it is recognised, through a portfolio and a panel, once someone is setting direction for others. Every journey here is built to land a learner at B5.

Next step

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