In this KubeCon interview, Keith Mattix, engineering lead at Microsoft, talks about his experience and involvement in the open source community and the Istio project. He discusses his work in upstream service mesh and related technologies in the Kubernetes networking space. The conversation delves deeply into the evolution of open source offerings, highlighting the development and application of the Gateway API and the GAMMA Initiative. Maddox shares his vision for the future of these projects and talks about the value that developments in the open source ecosystem bring to end users.   00:00 Introduction and Guest Background 01:26 Role and Involvement in Open Source 01:55 Understanding Service Mesh 05:18 Istio's Journey in CNCF 07:19 Benefits of Open Source Collaboration 09:58 Gateway API Version 1.0 and Its Importance 13:55 Collaboration with the Gateway API Community 14:23 Future Goals for Gateway API 14:49 The Need for Standardization in Mesh Implementations 16:07 The Importance of User Adoption 16:43 Excitement for Open Source 18:09 The Impact of Infrastructure Improvements 20:10 The Importance of Kubernetes 21:51 Closing Remarks and Future Aspirations Guest:    Keith Mattix is a Senior Engineer on the Open Service Mesh team at Microsoft Azure. As a maintainer of the Service Mesh Interface CNCF project, Keith is a founding lead of the GAMMA initiative under Kubernetes SIG Network. Keith has written a lot of code that’s led to some interesting side quests, and he’s passionate about sharing those lessons and experiences with others. His love of distributed systems is eventually consistent.