Jul 12, 2017
Due to popular demand, this week Francesc and Mark are joined by Product Manager Varun Talwar and Senior Staff Software Engineer Sven Mawson to discuss all things Istio, an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices.
About Varun Talwar
Product Manager in Google Cloud; founding PM on @grpcio and @IstioMesh
About Sven Mawson
Software Engineer in Google Cloud; founder of @IstioMesh
Cool things of the week
- gSlack: Integrating Google Cloud Platform with Slack blog
- Solution guide: Building connected vehicle apps with Cloud IoT Core blog solution
- Why did the Gopher spend so much at the drug store? punchline
- Super Mario Run Case Study youtube
Interview
- Istio home page overview design goals
- OSI Network Model wikipedia
- Kubernetes sidecar containers blog
- Installing Istio docs
- Monitoring via Prometheus (podcast) and Grafana
- Envoy L7 proxy homepage
- Istio Ingress Controller docs
Question of the week
If I want to apply Istio to an existing Kubernetes application, how do I do it?
Where can you find us next?
Francesc will be at GopherCon in Denver. He also recently released the Go Tooling in Action workshop and a new justforfunc episode!
Mark will be speaking at Google Cloud Summit, New York with Phoenix One Games in July, as well as TA’ing the Kubernetes Bootcamp. He also released the second blog post in his series about running Game Servers on Kubernetes.