Due to popular demand, this week Francesc (https://twitter.com/francesc) and Mark (https://twitter.com/Neurotic)

are joined by Product Manager Varun Talwar (https://twitter.com/varungyan) and Senior Staff Software Engineer

Sven Mawson (https://twitter.com/SvenMawson) to discuss

all things Istio (https://istio.io/), an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices.

About Varun Talwar

Product Manager in Google Cloud; founding PM on @grpcio (https://twitter.com/grpcio) and @IstioMesh (https://twitter.com/IstioMesh)

About Sven Mawson

Software Engineer in Google Cloud; founder of @IstioMesh (https://twitter.com/IstioMesh)

Cool things of the week

* gSlack: Integrating Google Cloud Platform with Slack blog (https://blog.doit-intl.com/gslack-9391be7c191a)

* Solution guide: Building connected vehicle apps with Cloud IoT Core blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/06/solution-guide-building-connected-vehicle-apps-with-Cloud-IoT-Core.html) solution (https://cloud.google.com/solutions/designing-connected-vehicle-platform)

* Why did the Gopher spend so much at the drug store? punchline (https://twitter.com/Neurotic/status/884462047852863488)

* Super Mario Run Case Study youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-29lW2EWock)

Interview

* Istio home page (https://istio.io/) overview (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/what-is-istio/overview.html) design goals (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/what-is-istio/goals.html)

* OSI Network Model wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model)

* Kubernetes sidecar containers blog (http://blog.kubernetes.io/2015/06/the-distributed-system-toolkit-patterns.html)

* Installing Istio docs (https://istio.io/docs/tasks/installing-istio.html)

* Monitoring via Prometheus (https://prometheus.io/) (podcast (https://gcppodcast.com/post/episode-82-prometheus-with-julius-volz/)) and Grafana (https://grafana.com/)

* Envoy L7 proxy homepage (https://lyft.github.io/envoy/)

* Istio Ingress Controller docs (https://istio.io/docs/tasks/ingress.html)

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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 (http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/05/managing-microservices-with-istio-service-mesh.html)

* istioctl kube-inject docs (https://istio.io/docs/reference/commands/istioctl.html#synopsis-5)

Where can you find us next?

Francesc will be at GopherCon (https://www.gophercon.com/) in Denver. He also recently released the Go Tooling in Action (https://github.com/campoy/go-tooling-workshop) workshop

and a new justforfunc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5ufcpTGIJM) episode!

Mark will be speaking at Google Cloud Summit, New York (https://cloudplatformonline.com/summit-NewYork-2017.html) with Phoenix One Games in July,

as well as TA’ing the Kubernetes Bootcamp (https://cloudplatformonline.com/summit-NewYork-2017-Bootcamp.html). He also

released the second blog post (http://www.compoundtheory.com/scaling-dedicated-game-servers-with-kubernetes-part-2-managing-cpu-and-memory/) in his series about running Game Servers on Kubernetes.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GcpPodcast/~4/T_vp40f--MI)