Iteratively Implementing Istio - Zero to Service Mesh with No Downtime
Discover how to implement Istio service mesh incrementally without causing downtime in this 21-minute conference talk from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. Learn from Patrick Auld of Autodesk as he shares PlanGrid's successful journey of adopting an early release of Istio in production for approximately 50 microservices. Explore the careful planning and experimentation process used to gradually incorporate specific Istio services and features, starting with Ingress Gateways and progressing to custom L7 routing with VirtualServices. Gain insights into the systems and cultural aspects that enabled a small team to implement these changes across the entire engineering organization. Follow the presentation's structure, covering introduction, architecture, authentication, observability, a disaster story, and future projects, to understand how Istio implementation can improve system observability, prevent performance incidents, and facilitate monolith decomposition.