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Advanced Security on Kubernetes with Istio

Advanced Security on Kubernetes with Istio

February 12, 2020

Conventional network is designed with a policy "everything on the inside an organizations network can be trusted".Thus, a system security is based on Firewall in order to control access between outsi …
Microservices, Service Mesh, and CI/CD Pipelines - Making it All Work Together

Microservices, Service Mesh, and CI/CD Pipelines - Making it All Work Together

February 6, 2020

Microservices come with many advantages for massively scaling applications. CI/CD is a common approach to automating updates to these applications in kubernetes. Strategies such as canary deployments …
Putting microservices on a diet with Istio

Putting microservices on a diet with Istio

February 6, 2020

Building microservice architectures is complex. Handling the involved complexities is usually left up to the development teams to implement. Using open source components to address these challenges is an option, but this quickly leads to excessive library bloat in your microservices. So let's put them on a dietwith Istio. Join Mario-Leander Reimer to learn how.
Workshop: Cloud-native Network Functions (CNF) Seminar

Workshop: Cloud-native Network Functions (CNF) Seminar

February 6, 2020

Two of the fastest-growing Linux Foundation projects ONAP (part of LF Networking) and Kubernetes (part of CNCF) are coming together in the next generation telecom architecture.Telcos are engaging …
Lab: Istio Playground

Lab: Istio Playground

February 5, 2020

Istio service mesh is a thrilling new tech that helps getting a lot of technical stuff out of your microservices (circuit breaking, observability, mutual-TLS, …) into the infrastructure - for those …
What are My Microservices Doing?

What are My Microservices Doing?

January 24, 2020

Microservices have become the standard for new architectures. But the microservices architecture presents some new challenges. One of them is the so-called Observability problem, where it is hard to …
A New Software Engineering Methodology for Creating Resilient Microservices

A New Software Engineering Methodology for Creating Resilient Microservices

January 15, 2020

Worldwide business houses are increasingly mandated to be agile and reliable in their operations, offerings and outputs. As IT is the greatest enabler of businesses, IT professionals and professors ac …
Istio and Envoy: Enabling Sidecars for Microservices

Istio and Envoy: Enabling Sidecars for Microservices

January 13, 2020

The migration from monolith to microservices has empowered engineering teams to develop modular code quickly and efficiently. While offering many benefits, this movement has also introduced challenges …
Keynote: Kubernetes, Istio, Knative: The New Open Cloud Stack

Keynote: Kubernetes, Istio, Knative: The New Open Cloud Stack

January 11, 2020

Kubernetes has succeeded in its initial mission. Launched by Google as an open source platform built on the foundations of Borg, Kubernetes has grown into an enterprise platform, with a strong communi …
Experience Report: Running a Distributed System Across Kubernetes Clusters

Experience Report: Running a Distributed System Across Kubernetes Clusters

January 9, 2020

Kubernetes makes it easy to run distributed applications, even those that manage persistent state, within the confines of a single cluster. Running the same applications in a multi-region or multi-clo …
Athenz with Istio: Single Access Control Model in Cloud Infrastructures

Athenz with Istio: Single Access Control Model in Cloud Infrastructures

January 2, 2020

Most Cloud computing environments are based on self-service thus authorization configurations are frequent and dynamic. Furthermore, in Microservices architecture, each service communicates via Web AP …
Comprehensive container-based service monitoring with Kubernetes and Istio

Comprehensive container-based service monitoring with Kubernetes and Istio

December 31, 2019

Do you have a real understanding of the performance of your new Kubernetes service, or do you just know what the average user is seeing? Fred Moyer explains how to get a comprehensive understanding of your Kubernetes infrastructure with a little math and an Istio service mesh implementation for your container-based infrastructure.
Debugging Istio 101

Debugging Istio 101

December 31, 2019

Liam White covers the basics of the Istio-Envoy interaction and explains how to debug issues that might occur between them. Liam then leads a live demonstration of some of the tools and tricks at your disposal for debugging issues with Istio itself.
Keynote: The Emerging Multicloud World

Keynote: The Emerging Multicloud World

December 30, 2019

Still running in a single cloud? We didnt think so. On-prem. Public. Hybrid. Its rapidly becoming a multicloud world and open source technologies are at the forefront of this transformation. Well …
Keynote: The Unification of Containers, Apps and Functions

Keynote: The Unification of Containers, Apps and Functions

December 30, 2019

Cloud-native developers today have to decide between 3 separate container platforms. Some choose the flexibility of containers with Kubernetes, others the velocity of an opinionated platform like Clo …
Istio: Zero-trust communication security for production services

Istio: Zero-trust communication security for production services

December 29, 2019

While adopting microservices leads to increased agility and developer productivity, it also exposes production environments to new security threats. Samrat Ray, Tao Li, and Mak Ahmad explain how Istio helps protect against these emerging security threats to service-based applications.
Kernel advantages for Istio realized with Cilium

Kernel advantages for Istio realized with Cilium

December 29, 2019

BPF technology is bringing Linux kernel capabilities up to speed with modern workload requirements. Cilium helps make BPF consumable for microservices architectures and enables Istio with the most powerful security solution by way of the kernel. Cynthia Thomas and Romain Lenglet explain why you should use Cilium to enforce API-aware policy while coordinating with Istio.
Connecting Kubernetes Clusters Across Cloud Providers

Connecting Kubernetes Clusters Across Cloud Providers

December 28, 2019

It is well understood how to run individual Kubernetes clusters in all major clouds, managed and self-managed, but how do we connect individual clusters together? This talk will guide you how to inter …
Using Istio and Envoy for ingress routing in Cloud Foundry

Using Istio and Envoy for ingress routing in Cloud Foundry

December 24, 2019

Cloud Foundrya multicloud, IaaS-agnostic platform as a service with an active open source communityalready has solutions for ingress routing for both HTTP and TCP traffic. Shubha Anjur Tupil and Aaron Hurley share a case study in which their company augmented its routing tier using Istio and Envoy. Join in to hear about the journey and the lessons learned along the way.
Noobernetes 101: Top 10 Questions We Get From New K8s Users

Noobernetes 101: Top 10 Questions We Get From New K8s Users

December 21, 2019

Neependra and Karthik have Kubernetes 101 courses on edX and lynda.com that are very popular and have had over 200,000 views. Over time, theyve received many questions from folks who are new to K8s, …
Navigating Workload Identity in Kubernetes

Navigating Workload Identity in Kubernetes

December 20, 2019

If your application accepts network connections, you need to know with confidence who is on the other end. If your application is composed of many microservices, it pays to take a managed approach to …
Istio - The Packet's-Eye View

Istio - The Packet's-Eye View

December 18, 2019

The Istio project reached 1.0 this summer, and is mature enough to have LTS releases. It's getting a lot of attention, but in a lot of ways it's still a mystery. You've probably read about it, you mig …
Is Istio the Most Next Gen Next Gen Firewall Ever Created?

Is Istio the Most Next Gen Next Gen Firewall Ever Created?

December 11, 2019

Istio is emerging as a popular service mesh layer for cloud native apps and it delivers a variety of great features for devops scenarios. While security is one of its core tenets, Istio has far more p …
Lightning Talk: Extending Istio Service Mesh with Envoy v2 APIs for Stateless and Stateful Services

Lightning Talk: Extending Istio Service Mesh with Envoy v2 APIs for Stateless and Stateful Services

December 8, 2019

Envoy v2 APIs have many new features for both stateless and stateful service balancing and discovery. This talk will focus on how to run Envoy v2 API with Kubernetes and Istio, in order to extend the …
Keynote: Re-thinking Networking for Microservices

Keynote: Re-thinking Networking for Microservices

December 7, 2019

Its been said that Istio is a network for services, not bytes. What does that mean and what does a service mesh offer to developers and operators of microservices? We will discuss this and how Isti …
Lightning Talk: Istio by Example

Lightning Talk: Istio by Example

December 7, 2019

Istio is the cool new kid on the service mesh block: it can be deployed without the need for any change on the microservice-side and enhances their communication paths with encryption, resiliency, ide …
Introduction to Istio Configuration

Introduction to Istio Configuration

December 6, 2019

Istio is an open platform that allows the operator to turn workloads into "services" by intent-driven configurations without rewriting/redeploying them. Istio configuration provides the operators cent …
Practical and Useful Latency Analysis using Istio and OpenCensus

Practical and Useful Latency Analysis using Istio and OpenCensus

December 5, 2019

Imagine debugging and trying to find the cause for latency spikes for some customers in a microservices environment with hundreds of services, deployed on kubernetes. Imagine you are trying to do hots …