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Bridging, not Breaking Tradition: Use Service Mesh Expansion to Connect Legacy Workloads to Kubernetes Services

Bridging, not Breaking Tradition: Use Service Mesh Expansion to Connect Legacy Workloads to Kubernetes Services

March 1, 2020

Kubernetes has become a preferred platform for hosting distributed and portable services and applications. With this, Istio service mesh can be deployed to address service discovery, service-to-servic …
Navigating in stormy waters: An approach to traffic management with Istio

Navigating in stormy waters: An approach to traffic management with Istio

March 1, 2020

History repeats itself. Some years ago, software engineers started to implement frameworks to ease the development of software applications. Laurentiu Spilca walks you through how microservices are currently delivered and what Istio can do for you in regard to traffic management.
Istio on Knative Lessons Learned: How Istio is Fit for Serverless Platform

Istio on Knative Lessons Learned: How Istio is Fit for Serverless Platform

February 29, 2020

Serverless is the emerging technology to support microservices. Istio is a popular service mesh platform. How Istio is fit for a serverless platform? Its a question that developers and users of both …
Highly available cross-region deployments with Kubernetes

Highly available cross-region deployments with Kubernetes

February 27, 2020

Out-of-the-box Kubernetes makes it easy to deploy and scale your applications within one Kubernetes cluster in one single region. But it's also possible to deploy an application over multiple clusters in different regions, so it becomes truly highly available even if a complete region fails. Learn how to deploy one application across multiple federated Kubernetes clusters with Bastian Hofmann.
Revolutionizing a bank: Introducing service mesh and a secure container platform

Revolutionizing a bank: Introducing service mesh and a secure container platform

February 26, 2020

For years, Janna Brummel and Robin van Zijll have been told no to any external hosting. They've always lost time by not being able to use open source and cloud native products without adjustments. All because they work for a bank. Things are changing now: Janna and Robin are proving it's possible to run APIs in a secure container platform in the public cloud.
Service Mesh in a Nutshell

Service Mesh in a Nutshell

February 25, 2020

Software applications have evolved from monoliths to microservices in a move towards becoming Cloud Native. The Cloud provides numerous benefits over traditional platforms. However, transitioning towa …
Comparison of Current Service Mesh Architectures

Comparison of Current Service Mesh Architectures

February 22, 2020

A service mesh provides visibility, traffic management, resiliency and security control for distributed application services. This presentation focuses on the differences between service meshes and se …
Service Mush: Debugging Istio Deployments

Service Mush: Debugging Istio Deployments

February 20, 2020

So youve decided to deploy Istio to power-up your microservices. Now what do you do when things dont work as expected? How do you debug traffic management and canary rollouts and what if traffic isn …
BoF: Istio Service Mesh Improvement

BoF: Istio Service Mesh Improvement

February 11, 2020

Istio is an open platform that provides a consistent way to connect, secure, control, and observe micro services across your service mesh. In this BOF session, Lin provides a quick update of the key f …
Navigating the Service Mesh Landscape with Istio, Consul Connect, and Linkerd

Navigating the Service Mesh Landscape with Istio, Consul Connect, and Linkerd

January 31, 2020

Service mesh has hit the cloud-native computing community like.a storm and we're starting to see gradual adoption across the enterprise. There are a handful of open-source service mesh implementations …
Developing serverless applications on Kubernetes with Knative (sponsored by Pivotal)

Developing serverless applications on Kubernetes with Knative (sponsored by Pivotal)

January 30, 2020

There's too much fragmentation for developers when it comes to deciding the right open source FaaS solution. Bryan Friedman and Brian McClain detail Knative, an open source project from Google, Pivotal, and other industry leaders that provides a set of common tooling on top of Kubernetes to help developers build functions.
I'm a developer; should I care about a service mesh?

I'm a developer; should I care about a service mesh?

January 29, 2020

Understanding what problems a service mesh is designed to solve and leveraging its capabilities is key for application developers. This allows you to focus on the pieces you need to build your application and deliver business value. Neeraj Poddar dissects which service mesh capabilities you should care about and explores common questions from platform teams.
Scaling teams with technology (or is it the other way around?)

Scaling teams with technology (or is it the other way around?)

January 19, 2020

Microservices and cloud native technologies is the path for building large-scale, distributed systems. Can it do the same for teams? Chen Goldberg leads the Google engineering team building Kubernetes, Istio, GKE, and Anthos and explains how the same tech can help build happy teams.
Data-driven digital transformation and jobs: The new software hierarchy and ML

Data-driven digital transformation and jobs: The new software hierarchy and ML

January 13, 2020

Robert Cohen discusses the skills that employers are seeking from employees in digital jobs, linked to the new software hierarchy driving digital transformation. Robert describes this software hierarchy as one that ranges from DevOps, CI/CD, and microservices to Kubernetes and Istio. This hierarchy is used to define the jobs that are central to data-driven digital transformation.
Lightning Talk: Observability for Containerized NW Slice with OSS vEPC

Lightning Talk: Observability for Containerized NW Slice with OSS vEPC

January 1, 2020

Cloud Native network is one of the innovation for Telecoms because improving the agility and flexibility of a 5G network make our life better. CNFs are core functions of 5G and Observability for CNFs …
Container Network Functions or Cloud Native Network Functions for 5G

Container Network Functions or Cloud Native Network Functions for 5G

December 31, 2019

Containers encapsulate microservices and allow flexibility and reusability with respect to deployment of components. However, they also create complexity as a single network function can be divided in …
Kubernetes at Cruise: Two Years of Multitenancy

Kubernetes at Cruise: Two Years of Multitenancy

December 22, 2019

Cruise has been working on self-driving cars for six years and growing exponentially for most of that time. Two years ago they started using Kubernetes, betting on namespace-level multitenancy to prov …
A service mesh is easy to swallow in small pieces (sponsored by Aspen Mesh)

A service mesh is easy to swallow in small pieces (sponsored by Aspen Mesh)

December 19, 2019

You're probably skeptical of the hype around service mesh technology. Join Andrew Jenkins to learn how incremental adoption can make a service mesh successful on your terms. You'll learn trade-offs around a few of the top capabilities so you can prioritize what your project adopts today and what you can defer based on your own risk-reward profile.
Five Things You Didnt Know You Could Do with SPIFFE and SPIRE

Five Things You Didnt Know You Could Do with SPIFFE and SPIRE

December 19, 2019

Zero Trust networking and secure authentication are hot topics in security team meetings all over the world. But how do you actually get started? The open-source SPIFFE and SPIRE projects are your fou …
How the Department of Defense Moved to Kubernetes and Istio

How the Department of Defense Moved to Kubernetes and Istio

December 18, 2019

This session will showcase the DoD Enterprise DevSecOps initiative and its architecture. It describes how the Department of Defense is securing OCI compliant containers, moving to Kubernetes and Istio …
Running Istio and Kubernetes On-prem at Yahoo Scale

Running Istio and Kubernetes On-prem at Yahoo Scale

December 18, 2019

At Yahoo!, there are 18+ production grade Kubernetes(K8s) clusters and my team operates one of the largest on-prem K8s clusters handling 150K+ containers, 500+ applications and serving 1Million+ reque …
Scaling containers with multicluster GKE and Istio

Scaling containers with multicluster GKE and Istio

December 16, 2019

Containers are all the rage these days, but how do you go from a single sandbox cluster to a globally distributed enterprise-scale architecture. Christopher Grant covers both infrastructure and application design best practices, such as hybrid and multicluster configurations as well as decomposing applications into system, service, and microservices.
The future of cloud-native programming (sponsored by IBM)

The future of cloud-native programming (sponsored by IBM)

December 15, 2019

Today, we are witnessing a great proliferation of cloud-native paradigms such as 12-factor apps, microservices, and serverless. Tamar Eilam discusses an emerging unified cloud platform (based on open source projects such as Kubernetes and Istio) and explains why the new frontier is its evolution to unify multiple programming paradigms for greater simplification with power of expression.
Panel: Is Service Mesh Ready for Edge-Native Applications?

Panel: Is Service Mesh Ready for Edge-Native Applications?

December 12, 2019

Edge deployments, in contrast to large public clouds, pose interesting demands since they are physically insecure & capacity constrained. Also, Edge Computing Apps such as AR-VR, have low-latency char …
Advanced Model Inferencing Leveraging KNative, Istio and Kubeflow Serving

Advanced Model Inferencing Leveraging KNative, Istio and Kubeflow Serving

December 10, 2019

Model Inferencing use cases are becoming a requirement for models moving into the next phase of production deployments. More and more users are now encountering use cases around canary deployments, sc …
From Brownfield to Greenfield: Istio Service Mesh Journey at Freddie Mac

From Brownfield to Greenfield: Istio Service Mesh Journey at Freddie Mac

December 6, 2019

Freddie Mac is one of the two mortgage loan corporations in the United States managing trillions of dollars of assets across the country. Our infrastructure is spread across different Kubernetes provi …
Life Outside the Cluster: Adding Virtual Machines to an Envoy Service Mesh

Life Outside the Cluster: Adding Virtual Machines to an Envoy Service Mesh

November 26, 2019

Service mesh tools add lots of functionality for Kubernetes-based applications, including policy automation and telemetry. But what if you're halfway through a migration to Kubernetes, and you still h …
Securing Communication Between Meshes and Beyond with SPIFFE Federation

Securing Communication Between Meshes and Beyond with SPIFFE Federation

November 24, 2019

One of the hottest features that Istio brings to the table is transparent, mutually-authenticated TLS between all workloads running on it. Under the covers, it relies on SPIFFE to provide the cryptogr …