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