AutoTrader UK were an early adopter of Istio. Adopting it to meet GDPR requirements for encrypted traffic, Head of Infrastructure and Operations Russell Warman and lead engineer Karl Stoney have gone on to use it to reduce resource usage, and thus cost, as well as uncover bugs in their applications. They talk to Craig about it, while Adam serves his country.

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News of the week

Microsoft and Red Hat announce KEDA
- ZDNet coverage
Updates from Microsoft: AKS virtual nodes GA, DevSpaces GA, Policy in Preview
Remote development with VS Code
DockerCon:
- Docker Enterprise 3.0
- Docker Foundation
Monzo Response:
Velero v1.0.0-beta.1 is out
Grafana dashboards for Kubernetes administrators by Povilas Versockas
KubeCon EU Diversity Lunch and Hack
Red Hat Quay v3
Rook 1.0
- Episode 36 with Jared Watts
5G Depends on Kubernetes in the Cloud, according to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
- He also says Airship 1.0 marries Kubernetes and OpenStack for 5G’s good
- Airship 1.0 release notes

Links from the interview

Autotrader UK
Craig, Russell and Karl in the studio
Craig’s 1993 Vauxhall Cavalier
GCP Case study
Mutual TLS encryption in Istio
Onramp to Istio: An Adoption Story Google Cloud Next session with Dan Ciruli, Russell Warman and Karl Stoney
Managing your costs on Kubernetes: Karl’s blog post
Istio 1.1 feature: Sidecar resources
- Reduced CPU cycles by 90%
15,000 releases per year
Russell Warman and Karl Stoney on Twitter

AutoTrader UK, with Russell Warman and Karl Stoney

Kubernetes Podcast from Google