KubeCon NA Highlights and Istio Spotlight with Lin Sun - OpenObservability Talks S4E06 OpenObservability Talks

Have you missed KubeCon North America in Chicago? This one’s for you! In this episode, we explored the latest and greatest highlights from the event that every tech enthusiast is talking about. From cutting-edge innovations to industry insights, we've got the broad spectrum covered. 

But that's not all! We'll also zoomed in on Istio, the popular service mesh open source project that has just recently reached CNCF graduation. Join us as we map out the service mesh universe, and then dive into Istio's galaxy, unraveling its architecture, features, and the roadmap direction with Ambient. And you’ll get to hear it from the Istio authority, Lin Sun.

Lin is the Director of Open Source at Solo.io and a CNCF ambassador. She has worked on the Istio service mesh since the beginning of the project in 2017 and serves on the Istio Steering Committee and Technical Oversight Committee. Previously, she was a Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor at IBM for 15+ years. She is the author of the book "Istio Ambient Explained" and co-author of “Istio Explained”, and has more than 200 patents to her name.

The episode was live-streamed on 15 November 2023 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxnDH6LH-cA

You can read the recap post: https://logz.io/blog/kubecon-na-2023-recap/?utm_source=devrel&utm_medium=devrel

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Show Notes:

01:27 - Episode and guest intro

06:34 - KubeCon Highlights: Fluent Bit

09:16 - OpenTelemetry Logging, OTLP is GA

12:53 - OpenTelemetry project journey report

13:43 - WASM Day and Istio Day updates

16:18 - Keynote: the future of Kubernetes

18:51 -Crossplane latest release v1.14 

19:24 - Kyverno supports non-Kubernetes workloads

20:12 - Vitess 18 is now GA

20:43 - AI is nascent in CNCF

22:56 - CNCF’s GitOps microsurvey 

23:56 - eBPF documentary released

27:08 - Service Mesh architecture and landscape

31:36 - Envoy proxy 

33:48 - maturity of the projects

39:36 - Istio unique value proposition and adoption

43:55 - Kubernetes released native sidecar support

47:02 - The GAMMA initiative in Kubernetes Gateway API 

50:04 - Istio updates: Ambient, multi-claster, Gateway API GA impl. For N-S 

53:40 - CNCF Training & Certification Launch Istio Certification

54:56 - Istio roadmap

56:50 - how to follow Istio and Lin Sun and episode wrapup



Resources:

KubeCon Updates:

https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/11/07/opentelemetry-at-kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2023-update/

https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2023/http-conventions-declared-stable/

https://www.cncf.io/reports/opentelemetry-project-journey-report/ 

https://blog.crossplane.io/crossplane-v1-14/  

https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/11/06/kyverno-expands-beyond-kubernetes/ 

https://planetscale.com/blog/announcing-vitess-18 

https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/11/07/cncf-gitops-microsurvey-learning-on-the-job-as-gitops-goes-mainstream/ 



Istio Spotlight:

https://istio.io/latest/blog/2023/native-sidecars/

https://istio.io/latest/blog/2022/introducing-ambient-mesh/

https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/concepts/gamma/

https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2023/07/12/cloud-native-computing-foundation-reaffirms-istio-maturity-with-project-graduation/ 

https://istio.io/latest/get-involved/

https://training.linuxfoundation.org/blog/istio-certification/ 

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/istio-ambient-explained/9781098142698/



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