 Hello everyone. Good morning. So welcome to studio day North America. I'm facility. I work as a cloud native Developer at Ericsson software technology I'm a steering committee member at Istio and a maintainer Some of you would have already seen me at Istio day Europe We are so happy that we grew from a half day event At Istio day Europe to a full day CNCF collocated event here in Chicago Super exciting And we are actually so proud that Istio day Europe was one of the best Attended events in Europe now over to Zach. Yeah. Hey, hey everybody. I'm one of the founding engineers at TechRate That was one of the original engineers on Istio project at Google and these days the the folks just kind of let me hang around and do stuff It's nice But it's been it's been awesome to help out with with Istio day and we're looking forward to a really exciting I think really good schedule. So we're we're excited about it And on that note actually the the program committee Yeah, so we have some exciting sessions lined up for you here. So a big round of thanks for The program committee members who made this happen They helped us shortlist these talks from the numerous high-quality submissions, which we had received we had to make sure that the Sessions cover all aspects like new features in Istio to end user talks and we are also had to make sure We do a proper diversity inclusion whenever the talks are selected So a big round of applause for the program committee members Yeah, they did not have an easy time this year. It was a good we had a lot of really good submissions And of course we want to thank our platinum sponsor Google Cloud for making this happen as well without them We wouldn't be having Istio day. So thank y'all Thanks Google folks that are in here. I think there's only one. Let's go John Howard. No, there's five of us. Good. Yeah Thank y'all Yes, so a lot of exciting stuff happened around Istio ever since 2022 So from sailing to CNCF to introducing Istio ambient mesh to graduating within the CNCF So when it was introduced in 2017 Istio pioneered The modern service mesh architecture pattern with the observability traffic routing and security with sidecar containers in 2022 we introduced a new Pattern the Istio ambient mesh offering the same Benefits without the need for sidecar containers. So it's really Amazing to see the progress the project is making apart from that we also If you remember Istio con last year in the opening keynote We announced Istio's donation to the CNCF and we are so happy that before this event Istio is already a graduated project within the CNCF And kudos to all of our supporters our Contributors maintainers well wishers and even the end users of course and we asked some of them What they feel about? Istio's graduation within the CNCF. So let's have a quick video where they describe about that Volume they're saying really nice things Do y'all have Soundfeed back there. Oh, no, our sound guy is gone Sorry y'all. Yeah, let's sorry one second. Let's take a little look at that. I apologize We'll come back to the video at the end then in closing. It's great We we want to give a bunch of the folks here time to talk about Hey the cool stuff they've done and be the growth of the project. Sorry one second here folks and We will be back underway as y'all watch me struggle to click. I'm sure it's painful So moving right along One of the other really exciting things that we get to announce this coupon is that there is now an official Istio Certification via the CNCF. So that's been a while in in process, but we're super excited to to announce that There's a couple other kind of caveats as well because it just came out And so attendees here at Istio day have a voucher that'll actually get you a 40% discount to go take the exam When it comes out and is it out yet? It's not you can't quite take it just yet, correct? Yes Oh, it is today. So yeah, literally right now So if somebody wants to go run out and take the exam and come back and be the first one Well, you know, we'll get you up on stage at the end But yeah, that was we're super excited there that was there was a lot of work To get that out And that was something I actually personally helped with that was a touch rate helped create that one and get it out All right, so this is a quick schedule preview We have some interesting talks around ambient mesh from both John and Mitch our TOC members I'm also excited about some of these end-user talks and we have one Specific research item from the AI domain. That's also something interesting and we are really looking forward to that Maybe you could go through the remaining parts of the schedule and see yeah And I would you know, I was super excited to see quite a few end-user talks this year That was one of the big things that I wanted to push for as well and we've got quite a few coming up So we're super excited about it. We have some great stuff basically across kind of all levels of familiarity For more intro stuff into you know people using a CO day today into some of the Architecture and features that are coming out. So I think we have a really nice schedule across the board here ending with the workshop As well, which will be nice for for folks that want to stay and get hands-on with the ambient Yes, so we would like to congratulate our new users You can see the URL mentioned here. So if you guys are internally using Istio Please visit the URL mentioned here to add your company logo to the Istio ecosystem webpage And we would also like to welcome all the new Istio contributors So I'm so happy that there are 67 new contributors ever since last Istio day, which was Just six months before so 67 new contributors So a contributor or an Istio member is a person who has at least submitted one PR to any of these two repositories. So welcome all the new contributors Soon will have sound for you Yes, we have a lot of new maintainers as well. So maintainers are the people who Constantly support the different working groups in Istio by reviewing or improving Of a code base so a big round of applause to all these new maintainers Yeah, it's super exciting to get to add that many maintainers. It's awesome. It really shows great growth in the community Let's not forget about the release managers as well So they always do this tedious task of getting the release out on time once in a quarter we make a release and then run a lot of Qualification tests and we even make patch releases. So when there are issues found in the main release So a big round of applause for the release management team Audio issue is solved now, so should be Do you want to do it in the end? And you know one of the things we want to talk about is How folks can start to get involved as well So we're super excited in the past year at the number of new maintainers at the number of new contributors We want to keep that rolling right and there's been a lot of great work around how to contribute to Istio There's been the the working group driving that as well. And so that's something we're very proud of so please folks get involved Take a look at these these slides will also be available after to go look at those links And I think we're even having a contributor fest as well on Precision on Wednesday With cube con or myself Eric Lynn and Steven will be there to help you get started on Istio So if any of you are interested to join us, please do come over and then we will do some hands-on tasks and get you Yeah, a phenomenal way to get to know some of the team to get your first PR in and all it'll be excellent Yes before winding up we wanted to make sure we take a moment to recognize the ever supportive community so we thought the best way to do it is by appreciating some of the great efforts done by Some of our community members so to people maybe we'll just start with the other side the special recognition side so Andrea Andrea we want to Appreciate the great work She did in the last few months to get our performance pages up and running So we were having some difficulties in some of the past releases to get this test run So she took up the courage and patience to do this and ran all the tests for the latest releases and published the results on Istio.io website Similarly Rob, so people who are active on Istio Slack will the name will be familiar to you Rob's element So he takes a lot of time and effort in answering all the questions and queries that comes on Istio Slack Both of them are not here in person, but they have sent their colleagues to Receive the gift vouchers on their behalf and on the right hand side We have the top 20 contributors in the last six months to Istio We would like to invite whoever is here on stage for a group photo and then Thank you so much to solo.io for sponsoring these new Istio t-shirts for these top 20 contributors Additionally, whoever is there in this list who are not and Istio TOC or steering member Gets an additional CNC of gift voucher We didn't want to include the TOC steering members because you are anyways helping the project a lot So the gift vouchers goes to the other people But yes, I know many of you won't be here in person, but whoever is here can come and collect vouchers and t-shirts Others we will make sure it reaches you. Yeah, thank y'all y'all make the y'all make the project happen, right? It's the top contributors John. Can we get your t-shirt? Anybody else that did that list, please go up grab it. Thank y'all everybody round of applause for this These are the folks that make the project happen Lynn was also supposed to be here, but I think she's in the opening keynote Thank y'all we can try one more time to play the video So logistics wise I you know First off and maybe we should have led with this Yeah, so of course the the CNTF code of conduct is at play Here everybody that's here has agreed to abide by that The rest of the day is on sked So if you're gonna hop around between any of the zero days as one of the nice things this year all the zero days Are open so you sked if there's if there's interesting talks you want to go to as well Otherwise, please reach out the CNTF co-located events if there's any other like general questions Otherwise come find you know Fasila or myself or somebody else and we'll try and help you as well And with that, you know, we are super excited as well about next year So it's not just this event, but we have coupon Paris coming up as well. And so the the call for papers is Already open. Yes, perfect already open So please go ahead and get talk proposals in there as well. We had a really excellent competitive Submission process further for this one. We're excited to see next year as well Great, and then finally refreshments and snacks are outside. There's water outside by the door There's some light snacks as well. I believe that primary food is gonna be downstairs as well So if you need anything throughout the day, definitely get up go go grab stay hydrated. Make sure you stay healthy And then finally Follow the code of conduct to treat a treat other people how you want to be treated and We'll come back at the end and we'll play the video maybe as part of the closing already a little bit before that Make use of both the QR codes the first one as for the studio user survey 2023 and the right-hand side It's the feedback for the station. Correct. Yeah, so please user survey is super important Go go do that that it's very valuable for us in the project side And then of course session feedback is super valuable for the program committee as we're building schedules in the future Right give us feedback so we know what you like what you don't And with that, thank y'all do we want to do the video perfect already now. Hopefully we have sound. Oh Oh, no We have the song I hear possible to be part of the CNCF family and I'm really excited for the future of this project Hey, everyone. My name is Anil at Lurie. I'm a principal software engineer here at into it Congratulations to Istio on CNCF graduation kudos to the Istio code team and the whole community for achieving this huge milestone I'm super proud to be an Istio user and look forward to its continued success Congratulations Istio on your graduation You have joined a community of highly mature projects within the cloud native ecosystem Can't wait to see what you all work on next Congratulations on graduating Istio and to everyone who has collaborated on the project for over the past six years to have it reach This milestone It is amazing to see that Istio is now the third most active CNCF project in terms of PRs and has support for over 20 vendors and dozens of contributing companies. Go Istio. Hi, I'm KV I'm a software engineer from Dark Hatter. Istio has been constantly being an innovative office source project It's great Tuesday. It's a graduation. Congratulations on this achievement When we created Istio six-plus years ago, we always wanted to be part of the CNCF I'm so happy not only Istio is part of the CNCF But I was so graduated from CNCF Very grateful. I'm part of the Istio journey from the day one. Hey, hi We at Splunk are all very excited to see Istio graduate as an official CNCF project Thanks to all the maintainers contributors and end users. You make this project awesome Istio becoming a CNCF project really felt like Istio would come home Through hard work in the project and tremendous support from the CNCF and its community We're now a graduated project and I just want to thank everyone who has contributed to the success of Istio over the last six-plus years It's been an amazing journey and I can't wait to see what's next. Thanks everyone Congratulations Istio on graduating. What a great moment For me, it's like seeing your kid graduate from a concept an idea to such a vast usage in the world Congratulations to each and every engineer writer partner user who enabled this to happen Looking forward to more. Thank you. I'm trauma from wire card We're happy to see Istio's graduation from CNCF congratulations for all the developers And we're looking forward To bring you to to more and more production environment All of us at IBM are incredibly proud to see the Istio project graduate within the CNCF IBM has been part of Istio since it was founded and shares a passion for enhancing interoperability open collaboration And security for cognitive applications Congratulations to all the Istio contributors who helped achieve this great milestone Istio Congratulations. You graduated Now Take my advice and just don't think too hard about the student loans It's so exciting to see Istio move to graduated status within the CNCF It was only last fall that I made my first contribution to the project And it's an honor to be a part of Istio during this milestone I can't wait to see what we accomplish next Really really happy that Istio is joining this amazing list of CNCF graduates Congratulations to Istio and thanks a lot to all our supporters So excited about Istio's graduate nation It was great honor to be part of this project I cannot wait to see what will happen in the future I'm really excited for Istio becoming the CNCF graduation project Truly enjoyed the whole journey with the project And I'm looking forward to the big next milestone for the whole community Congratulations to the Istio community on the graduation of Istio at the CNCF Thanks to our contributors for helping us make this possible And thanks to our users for helping us make Istio the best service mesh Congratulations to the Istio community on graduation Whether you're a maintainer or contributor, a tech writer, a release manager Or most importantly a user, we couldn't have graduated without you This is a huge accomplishment that you should be proud of Hey, congratulations on graduation It's been a great pleasure working on this community Contributing to this project All the best I'm so happy to celebrate this major milestone of the graduation of Istio from the CNCF Incubator program Thanks to everyone who has helped Istio in this journey I look forward to seeing how Istio will shape the future of application networking Good luck and congratulations Congratulations Istio on graduating It's been a long road to get there But it's awesome that it's finally happened Hi everyone, I just wanted to congratulate my fellow contributors on Istio becoming a graduate project of the CNCF Thanks to everyone for making Istio a great service mesh that's fun to contribute to and operate Hello, I'm Xiaofeng I'm a software engineer from DaoCloud Seeing Istio graduate from CNCF is really a big step And congratulations on this graduation Hi, I'm John Keats And I work as a cloud engineer at Wacom in the Netherlands I'd like to congratulate Istio on becoming a graduated CNCF project And we're very excited to see what the future will hold for us I'm truly honored to be part of this milestone And I'm excited for the continued growth And the success of Istio Congratulations to everyone involved