Istio Day North America 2025
as the organisers put it
Istio Day North America 2025 has officially wrapped! Thank you to all the attendees who joined us. Watch keynotes and all breakout sessions on the CNCF YouTube Channel. Review session slides from…
who it's for
platform engineers, site reliability engineers, kubernetes operators, networking engineers, security engineers, database platform engineers
topics
ai in service mesh; model context protocol (MCP); token-based rate limiting; time-to-first-token metrics; istio ambient multicluster; double HBONE design; east-west gateway; downstream_cx_active connection metric; curved metric autoscaling; running Apache Cassandra in Istio; zero-downtime migration to Gateway API and Ambient
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | John Howard, Keith Mattix II | 03m |
Event opens with brief housekeeping: a Microsoft Azure sponsor thank‑you, a reminder the conference follows the CNCF code of conduct and instructions for… | ||
| Is Your Service Mesh AI Ready? | John Howard | 27m |
Istio already provides API key management and ingress/egress control but falls short on AI specifics: request/response bodies and streaming SSEs need logging… | ||
| Istio Ambient Goes Multicluster | Jackie Maertens, Steven Jin Xuan | 30m |
Istio implements an alpha ambient multicluster that connects multiple clusters with the same security, control, and observability as single-cluster ambient by… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Validating Your Istio Setups? the Tests Are Already Written | Francisco Herrera Lira | 10m |
Claims that Istio’s integration tests can validate custom deployments by running the existing test framework against your cluster and catching regressions… | ||
| Optimizing Istio Autoscaling: From Resource-Centric To Connection-Aware | Punakshi Chaand, Pankaj Sikka | 28m |
Operates Istio ingress scaling by replacing CPU/memory-only HPA with a downstream_cx_active connection metric plus a tuned curved metric (derived from… | ||
| Running Databases in Istio's Service Mesh | Tyler Schade, Michael Bolot | 32m |
GEICO builds a Kubernetes database platform that runs Apache Cassandra and Postgresql over a multi‑cluster Istio mesh using sidecar data plane, Spire for… | ||
| Is Zero-Downtime Migration Possible? Moving From Ingress & Sidecars To Gateway API | Lin Sun, Ahmad Al-Masry | 30m |
Harri migrates production from AWS App Mesh (Envoy sidecars) to Istio Ambient and Gateway API in-place on the same EKS cluster, finishing by Feb 2025 after… | ||
| Closing Remarks | John Howard, Keith Mattix II | 01m |
Short closing notes mention a reception on the first floor and thanks attendees for joining today, with logistics wrapped up quickly. The conference promotes… | ||
| Istio Migration: 50k+ Pods, Minimal Impact, Lessons Learned | Sumit Vij, Mark Gergely | 26m |
Credit Karma migrates 1,000+ microservices and 50,000+ pods from a homegrown Envoy mesh to Istio with no major incidents by running dual-mesh operation… | ||
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