Conference:  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022

Authors: Mitch Connors, Lin Sun

2022-10-26

Istio is changing the way Cloud Native developers think about Application Networking concerns such as Routing, Security, and Observability.  Join us for our first maintainer session as an official CNCF Incubating Project!  We will cover our ongoing efforts to make operating your service mesh boring with Istio and an exciting new model for running your data plane, reducing resource usage, and increasing control over CVE exposure with our ambient sidecarless topology.

Conference:  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022

Authors: Stefan Prodan, Mitch Connors

2022-05-20

The presentation discusses the challenges of upgrading Istio and proposes a GitOps approach to automate service mesh upgrades.

• Upgrading Istio is difficult and time-consuming
• 88% of Istio installations still have known CVEs despite efforts to make upgrades easier
• The GitOps approach using Flux and Flagger can automate Istio upgrades and improve observability
• The Helm controller in Flux provides a better experience than the Istio operator
• Istio upgrades should be treated like any other piece of infrastructure and automated using GitOps