Adam and Jerod talk with Jason McGee, VP and CTO of IBM Cloud Platform about Istio — an open platform that provides a uniform way to connect, secure, control, and observe microservices. They cover what service mesh is, why its suddenly so interesting, who’s involved in Istio, their involvement with the CNCF, getting started, and what’s next for Istio.

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Featuring:

• Jason McGee – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Istio / About Istio
• The Istio service mesh hits version 1.0 – TechCrunch
• The History of the Service Mesh - The New Stack
• GitHub - cncf/landscape: Cloud Native Landscape
• Envoy Proxy

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