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• Continuous feedback is crucial in the development life cycle to ensure compliance and prevent drift from the declarative state.
• Policies should be easy to access and start giving feedback early and continuously.
• Openconf test and Rego can be used to write policies and enforce compliance.
• An example policy is prohibiting the use of latest tags for container images in non-dev environments.
• An anecdote is given about the difficulty of convincing developers to onboard a shared cluster if the process is too complicated.

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• The themes for Istio in 2023 are accelerating the time to value for the service mesh, making the transition to mtls easier, reducing the total cost of ownership, and continuing to be predictable and stable.
• The focus areas for Istio in 2023 include getting the ambient mesh to production, participating in the Gateway API and Gamma API initiatives, promoting alpha and beta features and APIs, and integrating natively with other Cloud native projects.
• The presentation explains the shift from sidecar proxies to the ambient architecture and how it makes Istio more flexible and scalable.
• The future of Istio may involve a combination of sidecar proxies and the ambient architecture, depending on the use case and requirements.