Envoy, with Matt Klein

Dec 11, 2018

The Envoy proxy, a universal data plane for Cloud Native, has just graduated as the third top-level project in the CNCF. Craig and Adam talk to its author, Matt Klein from Lyft, about modern load balancing for microservices and pragmatically avoiding “second system” syndrome.

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News of the week

• CVE-2018-1002105: proxy request handling in kube-apiserver can leave vulnerable TCP connections
  • Gravitational write up
  • Proof of concept
  • More cryptocurrency mining with exploited Kubernetes clusters
• Microsoft Connect();
  • AKS virtual nodes are in preview
  • Virtual Kubelet joins CNCF
  • GPU support for ACI
  • ACS to be retired in favour of AKS
  • Cloud Native Application Bundle
    • Microsoft and Docker introduce Cloud Native Application Bundle
    • CNAB spec
    • Duffle
• DockerCon EU 2018:
  • Docker releases Compose operator for Kubernetes
    • Available on GitHub
  • Docker Desktop Enterprise
• Hashicorp Vault 1.0
• Upbound introduce Crossplane
  • Available on GitHub
  • GitLab moving to GKE
• Rook 0.9.0 — available you-guessed-where
• MicroK8s from Canonical:
  • Announc4t
  • Project p2e
  • Available on G5b

Links from the interview

• Envoy
  • Recently graduated to top-level project at the CNCF
  • Built at Lyft
  • Replaces libraries like Finagle and Hystrix
  • Introduction to modern network load balancing and proxying
• Envoy contributors
• Istio, built on Envoy
• Turning down the VC money: Why Matt isn’t starting an Envoy company
• Service mesh data plane vs. control plane
• Matt Klein on Twitter
• Matt’s blog