Due to popular demand, this week Francesc and Mark
are joined by Product Manager Varun Talwar and Senior Staff Software Engineer
Sven Mawson to discuss
all things Istio, an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices.



About Varun Talwar

Product Manager in Google Cloud; founding PM on @grpcio and @IstioMesh

About Sven Mawson

Software Engineer in Google Cloud; founder of @IstioMesh

Cool things of the week


gSlack: Integrating Google Cloud Platform with Slack blog
Solution guide: Building connected vehicle apps with Cloud IoT Core blog solution
Why did the Gopher spend so much at the drug store? punchline
Super Mario Run Case Study youtube


Interview


Istio home page overview design goals
OSI Network Model wikipedia
Kubernetes sidecar containers blog
Installing Istio docs
Monitoring via Prometheus (podcast) and Grafana
Envoy L7 proxy homepage
Istio Ingress Controller docs






Question of the week

If I want to apply Istio to an existing Kubernetes application, how do I do it?


Managing microservices with the Istio service mesh blog
istioctl kube-inject docs


Where can you find us next?

Francesc will be at GopherCon in Denver. He also recently released the Go Tooling in Action workshop
and a new justforfunc episode!

Mark will be speaking at Google Cloud Summit, New York with Phoenix One Games in July,
as well as TA’ing the Kubernetes Bootcamp. He also
released the second blog post in his series about running Game Servers on Kubernetes.