Following the recent announcements for Istio 1.5 and WebAssembly Hub, Idit Levine and Christian Posta hosted a webinar with guest speaker Louis Ryan, Principal Engineer at Google on Istio and Envoy projects. What is WebAssembly? WebAssembly (Wasm) is a fast, efficient, portable binary instruction format, providing an embeddable and safe execution environment for platform extensions. […]

  On March 5th, we announced an update to WebAssembly Hub in partnership with Google and the Istio community in support of the Istio 1.5 release. Released back in December 2019, WebAssembly Hub is a service for building, sharing, discovering and deploying WebAssembly (Wasm) extensions for Envoy Proxy and Envoy-based solutions like API gateways and service […]

Deploy extensions to Envoy in Istio using a declarative model to align with GitOps workflows *Originally published on the Istio blog  As outlined in the Istio 2020 trade winds blog and more recently announced with Istio 1.5, WebAssembly (Wasm) is now an (alpha) option for extending the functionality of the Istio service proxy (Envoy proxy). With Wasm, users […]

Last week at our first online meetup of the year, we featured and end user talk from Kevin DeLorey (Software Architect) and Brian Vandre (Lead Software Engineer) from Frasca Interntational, Inc. on how they are using Kubernetes, Gloo, Linkerd and more to bring flight simulation to the cloud. For more than 60 years Frasca International, […]

As users look to adopt Envoy-based infrastructure to help them solve challenges with microservices communication, they inevitably find themselves needing to customize some part of that infrastructure to fit within their organization’s constraints. WebAssembly (Wasm) has emerged as a safe, secure, and dynamic environment for platform extension. Today, the Istio project, with their announcement of […]

  Yesterday, Envoy Proxy announced version 1.13.1 and 1.12.3 to address four CVEs ranging from severity medium to high. Gloo Open Source versions 1.3.11 and 1.2.23 and Gloo Enterprise versions 1.3.0-beta4 and 1.2.10 have been released and include the latest version of Envoy Proxy with CVEs addressed. We recommend that all end users upgrade to […]

Today’s application modernization projects including serverless, Kubernetes and microservices involve more than just how applications are written and deployed, but require new components in the technology stack to properly deploy and operate them. As applications evolve to become a set of loosely coupled distributed services, how you manage and secure the traffic to them and […]

March is just around the corner and we have a lot on virtual and in person events lined up to talk about Envoy Proxy, Service Mesh (Istio, Maesh, Kuma, Linkerd, Consul Connect), WebAssembly and more. We are always adding more talks so check our website regularly for the full schedule of events and share with a […]

ParkMobile is the leading provider of parking solutions in the US with a mission to power smart mobility for every driver and vehicle, everywhere. Located in 7 cities across the country, ParkMobile helps their 16M+ customers park smarter every year.  Like many other companies that experience this kind of growth, the team looked at the […]

The cloud-native ecosystem took the IT world by storm with containers and Kubernetes and have created new categories of technology designed to address the new challenges created when applications evolve from a static monolithic architecture to a Hoot is a live video series hosted roughly every two weeks where engineers unbox various cloud-native technologies, dig […]

Did you know that Envoy Proxy is the go-to proxy for cloud-native environments because of its speed and extensibility. This has made it a popular choice as a proxy at the edge and as sidecars for service mesh. Envoy Proxy’s extensibility comes in the form of filters which are written in CPP and compiled directly […]

If you are already running on Google Cloud or looking to migrate, enabling access to your application services just got easier. Today we announced the availability of Gloo, our API gateway, on Google Cloud Platform Marketplace (GCP Marketplace) for easy and fast deployment to Anthos and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) environments.