 Hello everyone, that was an amazing intro Mitch. So I was wondering how exactly I would introduce myself Especially considering all these Istio experts sitting in front of me So I'm well compared to many of these people. I'm a newcomer to Istio So I wanted to make sure that that is highlighted here to indicate how supportive Istio community is for newcomers Considering that I'm in this program committee for the first ever Istio in person conference here So welcome everyone. I'm Fasila. I work as a club native developer at Erikson software technology And I also serve in the steering committee of Istio currently Alright, so as we get started, of course, we have a lot of people to thank right out the door and One of them as you came in you should have been greeted by our platinum sponsor Tetrate who made it possible for us to put this event together. So a huge thanks to them We'll hear a little bit more from them throughout the day Was this mine? Alright another another group of people that we need to thank is our program committee You know, this is only a half day event So there were extremely few slots that we were able to fill and we had something like 10 Proposals for every slot that we could fill the program committee did an amazing job working their way through these We trust that we've come up with a program that will be of interest to you all that will be engaging Informative we're going to be looking at some existing use cases what users are doing already with Istio in production We're also going to be looking ahead and seeing what's coming down the pipeline with Istio 118 Which ships in just a couple of weeks here as well as what what is ahead of us for the rest of the year So huge thanks to our program committee for the hours they spent putting this all together and narrowing things down for us Go through the schedule once I'll not take much time Yeah, we will have first John and Christian going to talk about the security posture of Istio and B&Mesh Followed by our TOC members Lynn and Luis going to talk about our 2023 roadmap updates After this we will have a end user talk from John Keats from Wakeamp Where he's going to talk about their onboarding journey to Istio after the third talk We will have a small break. So feel free to interact with all of our TOC or steering members or all the Istio Methods here and feel free to engage with them and immediately after the break We have we have this another end user talk from Alexa and Zeni I personally feel a lot more happy when I see more female speakers on stage So happy about them as well and then we have Zach who's going to talk about Istio for controls compliance And we have three lightning talks from Mitch, Matt and Zungu So you will be having all these sessions and details already in your shared app So please make maximum use of them So yes, we are so excited about the growing ecosystem and congrats to all of our new users So if you are an Istio user and your logo is not here, don't worry about this It's just the list of companies that were added to the Istio ecosystem page in the last one year So if you use Istio and you want to show support to the Istio community Please feel free to Reciple request by adding your logo at the URL mentioned at the bottom All right We also have quite a few new contributors the Istio team is growing and this year We've added 86 new contributors to the Istio project So if you've come by and dropped off a poll request in the last 12 months for the first time You should see your name here and we welcome you We are always looking for more new contributors So appreciate the time and effort that these folks have put in in getting involved in the Istio project And yes, we have a bunch of new maintainers also in the last one year So these are the people who really support the Istio community by reviewing improving and Managing the Istio code base. So a big round of applause to all of our new maintainers. They keep the community running And of course, where would we be without our release managers? It has been a very long time But if you join the Istio community early on you know that our releases have not always run on schedule But if you've joined us in the last three years You might not know that because we have an amazing team of release managers who work tirelessly to keep that three months release Cadence train going keep all of our patches shipping on time Huge thanks to everyone who served in that capacity Alright, so if you are here and you're wondering how to get involved in the Istio community for the first time We have a number of ways to do that and the first is to be here and ask questions to show up to our community Meetings and our working group meetings. If you have a question about Istio It's likely that a number of other people have that same question about Istio. They're really we don't hear dumb questions What we hear is people who are curious if it's a question that is obvious to us It means that that's a way for us to improve our documentation make it clear to other people So show up ask questions submit bug reports And then we're gonna have a talk a little bit later about how you can even submit your first PR in five minutes Or less to the Istio community. So feel free to jump in Yeah, here are some logistics information many of this you'll be already Aware so please make sure after the session you read them in your shared app and The CNC of events team has asked us to remind that there is a networking reception immediately after the closing ceremony so please stay back for the same and The speakers and audience you can continue your discussions and doubts even after the session in the CNC of slack channel The channel name is given here So please join that and continue your interaction there and many of you already will be knowing Istio is having a full-time Kiosk K-14 so please feel free to drop by and let's have a conversation there as well All right, so we have a couple of people to thank in particular I want to invite Eric van Norman and Howard John up on the stage You'll hear from them a little bit later Eric and John make up the vast majority of all of our pull requests and our code getting merged also our They make up the vast majority of the merge approvals So if you've ever submitted a PR you almost certainly have virtually met Eric and John And we have a few little tokens of our gratitude to show to them Thank you both for your literally round-the-clock work I think probably even right now work if I logged in I'd see that you were working on something for the Istio community It's really appreciated All right, and now before we even get started We have a pop quiz to kind of get an idea of what your experience and understanding of Istio is these questions are going to start easy And they'll get a little bit more difficult Facila is going to be walking through the middle aisle here with a mic if you have an answer I Think once you take it if you will trust them to get it working Does anyone know what is the meaning of the Greek word Istio? inspiration for the project and No program committee members. It can't apply facility We know you know all right. We got one right back there Whoops facility. I think you've passed him. There we go Hello. Yeah, it's The thing in the middle of the board where you Put your I don't know the English word. I'm Greek. So I know the Istio what it means It's easy for me, but I don't know the English word. It's there we go Google says a mast or sail Yeah, you go. I think that sounds right. Thanks for answering. All right, we're gonna get a little bit more difficult We've got three Istio features listed here Which of them can be used without any configuration beyond installing Istio? mtls HTTP metrics or distributed tracing Choose all that apply Yes, right up front. I guess it's metrics The metrics is that what you said? So that is a partially correct answer. We're going to need to look for a little bit more Hope there's one kind of in the middle there Oh, and here's one. Yeah mtls and HTTP metrics. That's correct mtls and htba metrics Distributed tracing does require you to do header propagation So there's a little bit of configuration needed to take advantage of that When was the first alpha release of Istio? Anybody been with us for that long? I haven't You can google if you Any takers? Yeah, we have a taker back here 2017 is correct. Yes, that's right Ooh, what month? Who was that? Do we have the month? Not January I'm hearing May, but I don't know where I'm hearing it from May is correct No, you all see members are not allowed All right, if you uh Facila, I'm going to let you be judge of who got that one right. We got 2017 from one person may from another person Uh, yes may may 10th 2017 was our first alpha release in the istio project All right, here's a tough one. Uh, which is the correct pronunciation? Is it istio ctl? Istio control or istio cuddle the tough ones have a special prices not chocolates So it's the end all right and before before we take answers I'll give you the the correct answer is none of the above because we never defined it Uh, so good luck. It's istio with some consonants at the end. No one actually knows how to say it I own the tool and I don't know what it's called. Uh, but we hope you enjoy using it Next question is a little less tricky. Uh, how long is each minor version of istio supported for? Anybody know our support window for a minor version? This would be like 1.17 or 1.16 Okay, Keith you you count you didn't help us write the support policy. Did you okay? Good good. We we can let him answer then Think we hate this wrong now three releases Three releases. It's pretty that's pretty close Our official policy won't call it good enough or official policy is two and a half releases So you can go directly from 1.17 to 1.19 and then we give you kind of half a release window to actually perform the upgrade in Once it comes out. All right, just a couple more which istio resource restricts the workloads and ports accessible to a namespace You already got one price All right, looks like we've got somebody Policy, I'm sorry. I can't hear PIA authentication policy Not quite good. Yes There's someone raising their hand pretty far back there Istio gateways Istio gateways is not the right answer. That is another great resource that we support I think it's authorization policy Not quite. This one has a really interesting name We've got one more attempt here and then we will get out of the way of our next presenters Is it network network policy? It is not network policy I think we might need to spoil the answer on this one. The correct answer is the sidecar resource which uh Is the probably the most unfortunately named resource in the entire istio ecosystem because we call Everything a sidecar. All right. Thank you all for participating if some of these questions stumped you Hopefully before the end of the afternoon You've gotten a little bit more information on istio and how you can use it Uh, of course, you can get to our transcripts here for the hearing impaired And our code of conduct here and with that I'd like to invite john and Oh, sorry was there? Yeah, so the cnc of gift vouchers. Whatever you got. Please make sure you use it At the venue itself because it's I think it's not you cannot use it in the online store. So make sure you use it here itself Good to know So john Howard is a staff engineer at google and christian posta is fieldcto at solo.io They've both been around in the community for a long time and are here to share some of their invaluable work on istio's Ambient mode come on up