Day Two Cloud 165: Does Your Infrastructure Need Istio?

On today’s Day Two Cloud we dive into Istio with an engineer who lives and breathes the Istio service mesh. A service mesh automates how microservices connect with each other. With a service mesh you can enable traffic flows, apply access policies, monitor communications, and more. Istio isn’t the only service mesh out there, but it’s a popular and open-source choice.

Our guest is Kevin Davin, a senior back end engineer as well as a Google Development Expert on Google Cloud and a GitLab Hero.

We discuss:

How Kevin got into Kubernetes, microservices, and Istio
The core promise of Istio
Balancing the complexity of Istio with the capabilities it enables
When, and when not, to implement Istio
How Istio supports separation of duties and roles
Pre-planning for an Istio deployment
Monitoring and troubleshooting Istio itself
The future of Istio
Istio vs. eBPF
More

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