Put open source to work
July 16–17, 2018: Training & Tutorials
July 18–19, 2018: Conference
Portland, OR

Schedule: Istio sessions

9:00am–12:30pm Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Comprehensive container-based service monitoring with Kubernetes and Istio
Location: Portland 256
Level: Beginner
Fred Moyer (Zendesk)
Average rating: ***..
(3.00, 2 ratings)
Do you have a real understanding of the performance of your new Kubernetes service, or do you just know what the average user is seeing? Fred Moyer explains how to get a comprehensive understanding of your Kubernetes infrastructure with a little math and an Istio service mesh implementation for your container-based infrastructure. Read more.
9:00am–5:00pm Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Istio Day (sponsored by Google Cloud and IBM)
Location: B113-114
April Nassi (Google), Christian Posta (solo.io), Samrat Ray (Google), Tao Li (Google), Mak Ahmad (Google), Nilesh Patel (IBM ), Daniel Ciruli (Google), Shubha Anjur Tupil (Pivotal), Aaron Hurley (Pivotal ), Robert Ross (Namely), Cynthia Thomas (Google), Romain Lenglet (Cilium), Liam White (IBM), Kelsey Hightower (Google), FABIO OLIVEIRA (IBM Research), Kelsey Hightower (Google)
Istio--an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices--provides an easy way to create a network of deployed services with load balancing, service-to-service authentication, monitoring, and more, without requiring any changes in service code. Read more.
1:30pm–5:00pm Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Hands-on with Envoy, Istio, and Kubernetes
Location: D135/136
Level: Intermediate
Christian Posta (solo.io)
Average rating: ***..
(3.00, 1 rating)
Service mesh is getting a lot of attention, but for developers, this technology may seem a bit too magical. Christian Posta offers a pragmatic, hands-on approach to understanding service mesh and the Istio architecture, covering how the various pieces work and how they work together to deliver powerful resilience, security, and control over your microservices. Read more.
4:15pm–4:55pm Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Microservicing like a unicorn with Envoy, Istio, and Kubernetes
Location: D135/136
Level: Intermediate
Christian Posta (solo.io)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 2 ratings)
Christian Posta leads a deep dive into Istio, an open source service mesh with a growing community of users and contributors. You'll learn how Istio works and how to debug issues as you take a step-by-step walkthough of Istio's components. Read more.
1:45pm–2:25pm Thursday, July 19, 2018
Istio: Weaving, securing, and observing your microservices
Location: Portland 255
Level: Beginner
Daniel Berg (IBM)
Istio's service mesh provides a common networking, security, policy, and telemetry substrate for services. Daniel Berg explains how the service mesh can help with the transition to microservices, empower operations teams, and enable the adoption of security best practices. Read more.
4:15pm–4:55pm Thursday, July 19, 2018
Leveraging Istio's Pilot adapters for non-Kubernetes platforms
Location: Portland 251
Level: Beginner
Christopher Luciano (IBM), Nimesh Bhatia (IBM)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 1 rating)
Istio’s Pilot consumes information from a service registry, which Istio uses to set up routing rules, policies, and circuit breaking, and provides a platform-agnostic service discovery interface. Christopher Luciano and Nimesh Bhatia explain how a Pilot adaptor for Consul or Eureka can use Envoy proxies to route and monitor applications that are running outside of Kubernetes. Read more.