 Okay, hello everyone. My name is Christopher. I'm a software engineer at Kong where I work on open source service mesh called kuma and Today I want to talk to you about the latest features that we released in kuma Okay, but what is kuma anyway kuma is an open-source service mesh that allows you to bring security observability and Advanced routing capabilities into your service mesh installation And into your micro services as well so Okay, it supports both Kubernetes and and VM workloads it can be deployed in multiple clusters and In multiple regions and is built on top of envoy Okay, so let's get into it the first feature I want to talk about is called auto reachable services so When your service mesh is really big and you have a lot of envoy configurations going over the network and so on this can get Really heavy on the network CPU and memory So up until now you had to manually define if you wanted to you know mitigate that you had to manually Define which services your service is consuming and then the service mesh would only send over this configuration But right now if you use mesh traffic permissions and auto reachable services, this will be Automatically figured out and you get the performance benefit pretty much for free The next thing I want to talk about is a new policy that we introduced It's called mesh load balancing strategy. It allows fine-grained control over how the Routing is done inside your zone and across zone so the first part of mesh load balancing strategy is called Local zone and under there you have affinity tags and Based on those tags and the weight you assigned you decide how much traffic goes to which Workloads with the same value of a particular tag. So in this case 99.9% of the traffic will go to the workloads with the same Kubernetes that I owe Slash hostname tag and 0.1% will go to topology those Kubernetes that I owe slash zone and The second part of mesh load balancing strategy is called cross zone and here you decide what happens with the traffic When the workloads are not available in your local zone So in this example if the workload is not available in US dash one zone We will fail over to the US dash two and US dash three zones Okay, the next thing I want to talk about is source and destination policies are getting deprecated and are being replaced by target ref policies and target ref policies are way more flexible when it comes to like Selecting which proxies configurations are going to be changed and what happens to the incoming and outgoing traffic so in this example we have mesh access log and a target ref policy consists of a couple of levels the first One is the top level target ref which defines which proxies Configuration is going to be modified. So in this example the Proxies related to the reviews service with a tag version equal to Canary are going to be modified and this is access log policy. So we decide what Traffic is being logged. So in this example in the from section We defined all the incoming traffic that is going to be logged So in this case it's going to be everything coming from within the mesh and In the two section we define what outgoing traffic is going to be logged So in this case, this is going to be like everything going to a service code backhand is going to be logged The next thing I want to talk about is the standalone mode is getting deprecated and we are replacing it with Federation so standalone mode is a way of just trying out kuma. So we have one centralized installation you just spin up a kuma deployment you connect a couple of services and then you can deploy a couple of policies and play around with it and Up until now if you wanted to go from this demo setup to something more production ready You had to start from scratch and now using Federation you can actually connect this already running zone into a global control plane and deploy more Control planes in other region as well. You don't have to start from scratch. It is really easy Okay, one thing that I wanted to also mention is that we're in a process of getting Incubating status so you can thumbs up this PR if you want to and Lastly just go around and play with kuma. You can visit kuma.io and Just go through the tutorials there You can also visit our booth and we're gonna have live demos on Thursday from 10 30 to 1 30 p.m Thank you very much and have a great conference