IstioCon, with Mitch Connors

Apr 27, 2022

Big week for Istio! Craig talks to Mitch Connors, Istio user experience working group lead and IstioCon program committee co-chair, about the project and the conference. Mitch talks to Craig about the news that Istio has been proposed to the CNCF.

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Chatter of the week

• 40th anniversary of the ZX Spectrum
• Some soothing YouTube channels:
  • Adrian’s Digital Basement
  • Jan Beta
  • RMC - The Cave
  • Mark Fixes Stuff
• Some conference talks about the Commodore 64:
  • Rich Code for Tiny Computers
  • DevOps for the Commodore 64
• DevOps for the ZX Spectrum
• Manic Miner
  • Play online

News of the week

• Istio has applied to join the CNCF
• Istio mode in Tanzu Service Mesh
• KubeVirt moves to Incubation phase in CNCF
• New sandbox projects:
  • OpenFunction, from Kubesphere
  • Teller, from Spectral Ops
  • Sealer, from Alibaba
• Chainguard Enforce
  • Episode 47, with Kim Lewandowski
• EKS Blueprints
• Unit 42 finds serious vulnerabilities in AWS log4shell hotfix
• Tanzu State of Kubernetes report
• Go article in the Communications of the ACM
• Please support DevOpsDays Kyiv

Links from the interview

• Istio
  • What is Istio?
  • ServiceMeshCon 2019
• F5 Networks
• Merkle tree
  • Merkel tree
  • Sparse Merkle tree
  • When was the last time you implemented a linked list?
• Envoy proxy
• istioctl wait
• Istio working groups
• Sidecar containers proposal
• Anthos Service Mesh
  • Managed control and data plane
• IstioCon 2022
  • Mitch and Lin’s keynote
• Istio has applied to join the CNCF
  • Pull request to the CNCF TOC
• Prusa i3
  • The frankenprinter
  • RepRap
• Mitch Connors on GitHub
  • Mitch Conner from South Park
• Mitch Connors on Twitter