Practical Istio

A lot of ink has been spilled describing what Istio is and the (long) list of features it provides. In this talk, we move past the overview and dive in to specific problems that companies are solving using parts of Istio today. We'll walk through several concrete use cases including: how one company made an existing system highly available (HA) with Istio; how another company with strict security requirements uses Citadel to manage certificates across their fleet and secure service to service communication; and finally how a third company is using Envoys and Pilot to manage traffic in their deployments, enabling them to break down their monolith into a set of microservices without affecting the other teams in their organization consuming the monolith's functionality. To make things concrete we'll walk through demos of each use case in a live cluster, showing how Istio can be deployed and integrated with applications to meet the requirements of these use cases.
Speaker: Zack Butch, Tetrate

[@lindhe]

Anyone got a link to his previous talk that he mentioned in the beginning?

[@mikeschem6441]

you ever find this?

[@lindhe]

@@mikeschem6441 I don't think so.

[@AttiDavidson]

Thank you.

[@wilsonlopez697]

Is not it true that communication between microservices is not good in efficiency? What happens if I have an event driven model using Kafka? Do I need to replace all my infrastructure? (Microservices Learner)

[@lindhe]

I think that a message bus would always sidestep a service mesh, since it abstracts away the underlying communication. But I also think that some applications are well suited for an event driven approach whereas other applications would work better in a server-client or p2p setup. So there could certainly be good reasons for using both technologies. But I would also be interested in learning more about this, so if anyone has a good resource to read or watch it would be much appreciated. :)

[@y.5107]

why not explain what it is used for or whent would be useful...