Istio 1.2 has been released. Louis Ryan is a core contributor to Istio and a member of its Technical Oversight Committee, in his role as Principal Engineer at Google Cloud. He talks to Craig and Adam about his history with API infrastructure and the service mesh, and the history and future of the Istio project.
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Chatter of the week

Adam goes to the Northwest Garlic Festival

Anthropomorphic garlic cloves
Pineapple Garlic Jelly


Craig goes to Fleetwood Mac

News of the week

Istio 1.2
HAProxy 2.0
New Docker Desktop for Windows with WSL 2 coming
Facebook peels the lid off Tupperware
Wind River adds Docker and Kubernetes support for the edge
Banzai Cloud adds Istio to Pipeline
Apple joins the CNCF as a Platinum member
Modernize IT 2019 digital conference from Google Cloud

Links from the interview

Istio service mesh
Louis Ryan’s talk at QCon
gRPC
Sidecar pattern
Core features of Istio
amalgam8 from IBM in 2016
What is a service mesh?
Envoy Proxy
Istio 1.2 release notes

Snow Leopard: 0 new features
The original announcement of Istio 0.1


The upcoming Istio operator
Common misconceptions:

Design goals
Community

Weekly community meeting
Working groups
discuss.istio.io




Related episodes:

SPIFFE, with Andrew Jessup
Envoy, with Matt Klein
Istio at 1.0, with Dan Ciruli and Jasmine Jaksic


Louis Ryan on Twitter