Istio Day Europe 2025
2025-04-01
London, United Kingdom
[Istio Day Europe 2023, Istio Day Europe 2024, Istio Day Europe 2025]
who it's for
platform engineers, site reliability engineers, kubernetes operators, observability engineers, security engineers, cloud infrastructure engineers, windows systems engineers
topics
istio sidecar optimization; sidecarless service mesh; multi-cluster istio deployments; istio ambient mode; kiali 2.0 observability; service mesh benchmarking; Envoy external processor; Open Policy Agent auth; GitOps for Istio; Windows zTunnel implementation
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Architecting Istio for Large-Scale Deployments: R&D and Service Me... | Lior Lieberman, Erik Parienty | 26m |
Riskified runs Istio across ~1,000 microservices at ~25k requests/min and faces routing chaos from virtual services whose cross-object rule order is undefined… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Optimise Your Mesh With Istio Sidecar | Maggie Slukova | 10m |
GetYourGuide uses the Istio Sidecar resource to limit egress configuration per workload, switching many services to registry-only mode so missing hosts get… | ||
| Navigating the Maze of Multi-Cluster Istio: Lessons Learned at Scale | Pamela Hernandez | 24m |
Real-world deployment notes for a hub-and-spoke Istio mesh that scales to hundreds of clusters and handles millions of requests/day: uses sidecar-based meshes… | ||
| GenAI Platform: Challenges of Authentication and Authorization in a... | Gerald Kleser, Darren Hague | 28m |
SAP runs an AI foundation with 40+ LLMs and sees real-scale failures: a Lua JWT filter jumps to 60 ms latency under load, sidecars swell to 16 GB/5 cores, and… | ||
| Lightning Talk: How To Get Istio Help | Rob Salmond | 14m |
Recommendation: ask first in Istio GitHub Discussions or Istio Slack (avoid CNCF Slack for answers and skip Stack Overflow for most Istio questions); on GitHub… | ||
| Istio Day | Closing Remarks | Denis Jannot, Keith Mattix II | 01m |
Conference closes after a short wrap noting a reception outside with alcohol and a reminder that badges contain the tickets for the reception; attendees are… | ||
| Istio Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks | Denis Jannot, Keith Mattix II | 03m |
Welcome and agenda note announces Microsoft Azure as sponsor, provides a QR for live captioning and translation, and lists KubeCon dates for Hong Kong, Tokyo… | ||
| A New Frontier: Sidecarless Service Mesh on Windows With Istio's Amb... | Keith Mattix II, Mitch Connors | 29m |
Claims a practical sidecarless path: a small Rust zTunnel runs per node and handles mTLS while full Envoy on Linux, zTunnel on Windows provides layer‑7… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Troubleshooting Istio Ambient With Kiali 2.0 | Josune Cordoba, Hayk Hovsepyan | 13m |
Kiali 2.0 (released Oct 2024) demonstrates observability and management for Istio Ambient Mesh by deploying the Bookinfo app, showing traffic graphs filtered… | ||
| A Service Mesh Benchmark You Can Trust | Denis Jannot | 27m |
Runs a live benchmark on a kind cluster using bare‑metal machines and a five‑year AMD CPU to show real costs instead of synthetic claims. Uses K6 client… | ||
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