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If you are a member of the DevOps, SRE, or Platform teams running Istio service mesh, you should not miss this: IstioCon 2023 virtual event is scheduled for September 25 and 26, and you can register for the event for free here.
Source: Linux Foundation
IstioCon is one of the occasions where Istio users and maintainers come together and share lessons learned from running and maintaining Istio. You can virtually participate in the event, learn, and network with folks running Istio from different enterprises.
IstioCon 2023 event schedule
Below is the schedule of topics that will be discussed in IstioCon 2023. Apart from these, there will be opening and closing remarks from Istio committee members.
| Monday, September 25 | |
| 11:05 am EDT | Istio ambient Service Mesh Made Simple |
| 11:40 am EDT | Fine-Grained Policies RBAC with NGAC |
| 12:25 pm EDT | Istio ambient Mesh as Managed Infrastructure |
| 12:35 pm EDT | Istio Roadmap Updates |
| 1:10 pm EDT | Pre-Sail Checks: Do You Need a Checklist Before Sailing to Production with Istio? |
| 1:50 pm EDT | Ambient in the Real World |
| 2:25 pm EDT | Achieving Fault Tolerance in Istio with Observability-Driven Load Management |
| 3:00 pm EDT | Untangling Your Istio Mesh with Feature Gates |
| 3:40 pm EDT | Identity Theft Is Not a Joke, Jim! How Istio ambient Mesh Safeguards Our Pod Identities |
| 4:15 pm EDT | Multiplayer Istio: Collaborative WASM Plugins |
| Tuesday, September 26 | |
| 10:45 am EDT | Debunking the Istio Is Complex Meme |
| 11:15 am EDT | Using Istio to Build Better Service Level Objectives |
| 11:45 am EDT | Expanding Horizons: Advanced Deployment Strategies in Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Environments |
| 12:30 pm EDT | Tracing CI/CD with OpenTelemetry |
| 12:40 pm EDT | Life of a Request in Istio ambient Mesh |
| 12:50 pm EDT | Best-Practices for Securing Egress Traffic with Istio |
| 1:00 pm EDT | The Security Evolution of GRPC Services in the Mesh |
| 1:30 pm EDT | A Look at Istio’s Journey with the Gateway API |
| 2:10 pm EDT | Istio’s Multicluster Networking Modes: Connecting Clusters Beyond Borders |
| 2:40 pm EDT | Demystifying Load Balancing in Istio |
| 3:10 pm EDT | Build Reliable Applications with Kubernetes and Istio Using Application Archetypes |
| 3:40 pm EDT | Bridging the Gap: Gradual Istio Implementation for Your Platform |
| 4:10 pm EDT | Traffic Dialling |
| 4:40 pm EDT | SLATE: Globally Optimizing Request Routing |
Istio ambient mesh making the noise
Most Istio users are excited about Istio ambient mesh. The sidecar-less Istio architecture is easier to manage and comparatively consumes fewer resources.
IstioCon 2023 covers multiple talks on Istio ambient mesh that DevOps, SRE, and Platform engineers want to attend. So do not miss out. Register for the event for free and let us e-meet there.
(FYI: We have done a few blogs on Istio ambient mesh. You can check them out here:
- What is Istio ambient mesh | why it’s necessary for microservices?
- How to implement Istio Ambient Mesh in GKE/AKS
If you want to implement Istio ambient mesh right now, let our Istio experts help.)
