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

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:
Louis Ryan on Twitter

Istio 1.2, with Louis Ryan

Kubernetes Podcast from Google