This week we explore what’s new in Istio with core maintainers John Howard and Keith Mattix   Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod   News of the week Announcing Linkerd 2.14: Improved enterprise multi-cluster, Gateway API conformance, and more! Amazon to invest up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic KubeCon EU 2024 CFP is open until November 26th CNCF Security Slam NEW Certification: Istio Certified Associate (ICA) npm packages caught exfiltrating Kubernetes config, SSH keys Links from the interview Kubernetes Native Sidecars in Istio (Blog from Istio) Kubernetes v1.28: Introducing native sidecar containers Argo Workflows Apache Airflow Envoy Proxy Istio Ambient Mesh Introducing Rust-Based Ztunnel for Istio Ambient Service Mesh eBPF Kernel TLS HTTP Based Overlay Network Environment (HBONE) KubeCon EU 2023: “Future of Service Mesh - Sidecar or Sidecarless or Proxyless?” - Idit Levine & Yuval Kohavi, Solo.io; Keith Mattix II, Microsoft; Eric Van Norman, IBM; John Howard, Google Istio Ambient Waypoint Proxy Made Simple kiali.io Kubernetes Gateway API (Istio) Getting Started with Istio and Kubernetes Gateway API Istio Desitination Rule Announcing Istio's graduation within the CNCF Istio sails into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF Blog)