KubeCon NA Highlights and Istio Spotlight with Lin Sun

November 21, 2023

Have you missed KubeCon North America in Chicago? This one’s for you! In this episode, we explore the latest and greatest highlights from the event that every tech enthusiast is talking about. From cutting-edge innovations to industry insights, we’ve got the broad spectrum covered.

But that’s not all! We’ll also zoom in on Istio, the popular service mesh open source project that has just recently reached CNCF graduation. Join us as we map out the service mesh universe, and then dive into Istio’s galaxy, unraveling its architecture, features, and the roadmap direction with Ambient. And you’ll get to hear it from the Istio authority, Lin Sun.

Lin is the Director of Open Source at Solo.io and a CNCF ambassador. She has worked on the Istio service mesh since the beginning of the project in 2017 and serves on the Istio Steering Committee and Technical Oversight Committee. Previously, she was a Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor at IBM for 15+ years. She is the author of the book “Istio Ambient Explained” and co-author of “Istio Explained”, and has more than 200 patents to her name.

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Resources
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KubeCon Updates:
Fluent Bit: https://logz.io/blog/whats-new-with-fluentd-fluentbit/?utm_source=devrel&utm_medium=devrel
OpenTelemetry: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/11/07/opentelemetry-at-kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2023-update/
OpenTelemetry HTTP Semantic Conventions: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2023/http-conventions-declared-stable/
OpenTelemetry project journey report: https://www.cncf.io/reports/opentelemetry-project-journey-report/
Crossplane: https://blog.crossplane.io/crossplane-v1-14/
Kyverno: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/11/06/kyverno-expands-beyond-kubernetes/
Vitess: https://planetscale.com/blog/announcing-vitess-18
CNCF’s GitOps microsurvey: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/11/07/cncf-gitops-microsurvey-learning-on-the-job-as-gitops-goes-mainstream/

Istio Spotlight:
https://istio.io/latest/blog/2023/native-sidecars/
https://istio.io/latest/blog/2022/introducing-ambient-mesh/
https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/concepts/gamma/
https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2023/07/12/cloud-native-computing-foundation-reaffirms-istio-maturity-with-project-graduation/
https://istio.io/latest/get-involved/
https://training.linuxfoundation.org/blog/istio-certification/
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/istio-ambient-explained/9781098142698/

Chapters
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00:00 – Show intro
01:27 – Episode and guest intro
06:34 – KubeCon Highlights: Fluent Bit
09:16 – OpenTelemetry Logging, OTLP is GA
12:53 – OpenTelemetry project journey report
13:43 – WASM Day and Istio Day updates
16:18 – Keynote: the future of Kubernetes
18:51 -Crossplane latest release v1.14
19:24 – Kyverno supports non-Kubernetes workloads
20:12 – Vitess 18 is now GA
20:43 – AI is nascent in CNCF
22:56 – CNCF’s GitOps microsurvey
23:56 – eBPF documentary released
27:08 – Service Mesh architecture and landscape
31:36 – Envoy proxy
33:48 – maturity of the projects
39:36 – Istio unique value proposition and adoption
43:55 – Kubernetes released native sidecar support
47:02 – The GAMMA initiative in Kubernetes Gateway API
50:04 – Istio updates: Ambient, multi-claster, Gateway API GA impl. For N-S
53:40 – CNCF Training & Certification Launch Istio Certification
54:56 – Istio roadmap
56:50 – how to follow Istio and Lin Sun and episode wrapup