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+title: "Introducing Layer5 Learning Paths"
+subtitle: "Introducing Layer5 Learning Paths"
+date: 2024-08-25 10:30:05 -0530
+author:Anita iHuman
+thumbnail: ./Layer5.png
+darkthumbnail: ./Layer5.png
+category: "Open Source"
+description: "If you're seeking an introduction to the world of service meshes and how to create and
+maintain applications using them, this article is for you."
+tags:
+ - Community
+ - Meshery
+type: Blog
+resource: true
+published: false
+---
+
+import { BlogWrapper } from "../Blog.style.js";
+import Blockquote from "../../../reusecore/Blockquote";
+import image from "../../../assets/images/layer5/layer5-only/svg/layer5-light-no-trim.svg";
+import Arch from './Architecture.png';
+import Service from './Meshery_Services.png';
+import Meshes from '.Meshes.png';
+<BlogWrapper>
+<p>
+This article introduces a hands-on Learning path for application architects and developers
+launched by the Layer5 Community. This learning route assumes you have some
+background knowledge of cloud, microservices, containers, and Docker. Since cloud-native
+apps built on microservices are the main topic of this entire course, within these learning
+paths are a collection of carefully curated training resources to help you advance your
+general understanding of cloud-native networking and your service mesh-specific skills.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The Learning Path is an initiative developed to help enlighten and test your knowledge on
+service meshes and management of the workloads that you’ll build atop of them. As a light
+Learning Management System, Layer5 Learning Paths offer cloud-native training and
+certification through the lens of role-based paths with interactive labs intertwined through
+the chapters. It comprises courses that are hand-curated by the maintainers at Layer5 to
+equip you with the foundational tools like <Link to=”/meshery”>Meshery</Link> that assists
+you in comprehending service mesh concepts.
+</p>
+
+###Learning Path Options
+
+<p>
+Depending on your role as a developer, operator, or security engineer, you can choose the
+learning path most relevant to your everyday focus. This learning path currently has two
+focus areas for you to explore.
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li><Link to=””>Mastering Service Meshes For Developers</Link>
+This introductory course in the Learning Path focuses on Developers and what they
+need to know to successfully design workloads for a service mesh environment.</li>
+
+<li><Link to=””>Mastering Service Meshes For Developers </Link>
+This advanced learning path teaches you how to set up a service mesh and control
+its workloads. However, this course is still in development.</li>
+
+<Blockquote…. >” blah”</Blockquote>
+
+<p>The Layer5 community believes that the growth of an individual user and contributor will
+impact the community’s development. Hence, these courses are all carefully selected to
+help you learn service mesh the right way from experts on Service Meshes in Layer5. This
+Learning Path/Certification course, in addition to the available mesh training resources, is
+designed to take a developer from a novice in service mesh to an advanced Service Mesh
+Practitioner.</p>
+
+##Learning Paths Information & Architecture
+
+<img src={Arch} alt="Learning Paths Information & Architecture" width="55%" height="55%" />
+
+<p>This learning path / Certification project is still in its earliest phases, and so currently, only
+one learning path is currently available: Mastering Service Meshes For Developers.
+It comprises two courses in length; an introduction to Service Meshes and an introduction
+to the advanced concepts of Service Meshes, with ~8 chapters per course. The courses in
+this learning path focus on the fundamentals of Service Meshes and use Meshery as the
+management plane in managing the service meshes. You will discover eight to nine
+streamlined chapters in each course that will assist developers with installing Meshery,
+deploying apps, and maintaining service meshes using Meshery.</p>
+
+<img src={Service} alt="Mastering Service Mesh for Developers" width="55%" height="55%" />
+## Service Mesh Supported 
+<p>This learning path supports two outstanding service meshes, Istio and Linkerd. Users can
+choose the service mesh they want to study in each learning path. You can learn the
+principles of several service meshes independently by clicking a button.</p>
+<img src={Meshes} alt="Service Meshes Supported " width="55%" height="55%" />
+
+##What will I learn in this course?
+<p>The learning path contains a range of topics from the basics to advanced topics on services
+meshes and the role Meshery plays as a cloud-native management plane.
+By the end of this learning path, you will have the knowledge and confidence on how to:</p?
+
+<img src={image} className="image-left-no-shadow" alt="image" />
+<ul>
+<li>Deploy an application using service meshes(Istio & Linkerd).</li>
+<li>Expose services using ingress gateway for different service meshes.</li>
+<li>Understand how service mesh performance is used to measure for Observability in
+your system.</li>
+<li>With Routing and canary, you will get your hands on some of the traffic
+management capabilities for different service meshes.</li>
+<li>You will discover how to use systematic defects to assess an application's resilience.</li>
+<li>You will gain insight on topics like, fault injection, circuit breaking, mutual Tls and
+more.</li>
+<li>You will learn more about Service security capabilities and how that work.</li>
+<li>Experience huge performance improvements using Webassembly and intelligent
+data planes.</li>
+
+</ul>
+<p>This course is for you if…</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>...you want to gain a clear and advanced understanding of Service Meshes.</li>
+<li>... you have been trying to learn and understand service mesh but still don't
+understand.</li>
+<li> …you are an application architect or developer.</li>
+<li>…you already understand service meshes and are looking for a course to cover
+advanced topics. This learning path also includes expert topics!</li>
+</ul>
+
+##What’s next?
+
+<p>The upcoming phases of this learning Path/certification will focus on capturing users’ data
+to help track progress on each learning path. Multiple learning paths, interactive labs, and
+quizzes will test participants' knowledge and award them a certificate upon completion of a
+learning path. Maintainers and contributors are working towards implementing some of
+these features in future releases. Some of the core features to expect:
+</p>
+<ul>
+ <li>Multiple Learning Paths.</li>
+ <li>User Account</li>
+ <li>Bookmarking / Progression tracking</li>
+ <li>Quizzes and grades</li>
+ <li>Certificate of Completion</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+##Conclusion
+<p>Layer5 is a creator and maintainer of service mesh standards and this makes it the best
+place for you to gain this knowledge. One of our fantastic initiatives is the interactive
+practice labs, which let you study while you explore services meshes on your browser. As
+the primary developers of the cloud native management plane, Meshery, our maintainers
+are readily available to answer your questions, should you in-case you have any.
+The Learning paths are now available on the Layer5 site. Feel free to take these courses
+and try out the hands-on tutorials. </p>
+
+
+<p><i>Useful links:</i></p>
+<p><a href ="https://layer5.io/">Layer5</a></p>
+<p><a href="https://slack.layer5.io/">Layer5 Slack Community</a></p>
+<p><a href="https://github.com/meshery/meshery">Meshery repo</a></p>
+_**P.S.:  If you encounter any bugs while taking these courses,
+kindly report by creating an issue; you can also join the [Website Slack channel ](https://layer5io.slack.com/)  if you wish
+to contribute.**
+
+</BlogWrapper>