Istio in Production: Real Customers, Real Solutions
summary
Istio 0.2 alpha is running in production within months, deployed as an Envoy sidecar and managed by a control plane (mixer) that exports telemetry to Prometheus metrics and Grafana/Influx. Customers (Descartes Labs, Auto Trader, Namely) use it to map inter-service calls, find a memory leak, enforce mutual TLS, implement canary routing and circuit breakers, and measure SLOs (example SLA target 99.5%). Result: faster debugging, lower CPU allocation, clearer ownership of overloaded services.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 3:15Decomposing a Monolith
- 9:09The Golden Signals
- 9:55Latency
- 10:54Proxy Server
- 13:35Micro Services Architecture
- 28:43General Data Protection Regulation Gdpr
- 35:04Telepresence
- 37:47Listen to the Kubernetes Podcast
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