On today’s Day Two Cloud we dive into Istio with an engineer who lives and breathes the Istio service mesh. A service mesh automates how microservices connect with each other. With a service mesh you can enable traffic flows, apply access policies, monitor communications, and more. Istio isn’t the only service mesh out there, but it’s a popular and open-source choice. Our guest is Kevin Davin, a senior back end engineer as well as a Google Development Expert on Google Cloud and a GitLab Hero. We discuss: * How Kevin got into Kubernetes, microservices, and Istio * The core promise of Istio * Balancing the complexity of Istio with the capabilities it enables * When, and when not, to implement Istio * How Istio supports separation of duties and roles * Pre-planning for an Istio deployment * Monitoring and troubleshooting Istio itself * The future of Istio * Istio vs. eBPF * More Sponsor: Linode With Linode, you can build applications using their simple cloud manager, API, or CLI. Quickly scale up or down with standard VMs, dedicated CPUs, and enterprise-grade GPUs, all with the best price-to-performance and same pricing across eleven global data centers. They’re also people, just like you. You get fast, human support 24-7. So visit linode.com/day2cloud and get $100 in free credit to try them out. Show Links: Kevin’s Blog @davinkevin – Kevin Davin on Twitter Istio.io What Is Istio? – Google Cloud