AutoTrader UK, with Russell Warman and Karl Stoney

May 7, 2019

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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Links from the interview

• Autotrader UK
• Craig, Russell and Karl in the studio
• Craig’s 1993 Vauxhall Cavalier
• GCP Case study
  • Auto Trader UK cuts IT resource use through Google Cloud, Kubernetes and Istio adoption
  • How Auto Trader UK, the UK’s largest automotive marketplace, uses Istio and Google Kubernetes Engine to drive change
  • Russell on theCUBE at Google Cloud Next
• 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