Istio with Sven Mawson

• Full show notes and transcript.

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Sven Mawson (@smawson) dive into the past, present and future of Istio, an open source service mesh born of collaboration between IBM and Google. Sven is a Senior Staff Engineer at Google and co-founder of the Istio project. In today’s episode, he shares the story of how two titans came together for a tool that anyone can use and contribute to.

In this episode we discuss:

• How Google asked IBM to drop their Amalgam8 project
• The involvement of Lyft, Envoy and Matt Klein (@mattklein123)
• Making moves at QCon
• A counter-intuitive marketing strategy
• What work still needs to be done

Links

• Istio
• Google Cloud Endpoints
• Kubernetes
• Envoy
• QCon
• NGinX