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.