Christian Posta

VP, Global Field CTO

Christian Posta (@christianposta) is Global Field CTO at Solo.io supporting customers and end users in their adoption of cloud-native technologies. He is an author for Manning and O’Reilly publications, open source contributor, blogger and sought after speaker on Envoy Proxy and Kubernetes technologies. Prior to Solo.io, Chrisitan was a Chief Architect at Red Hat, FuseSource and held engineering positions at organizations like Wells Fargo, Apollo Group, Intel.

Christian's Articles

Christian Posta, Shashank Ram

Scaling Cilium to New Heights With xDS

January 11, 2024

Christian Posta, Peter Jausovec

Using JWTs to Authenticate Services Unravels API Gateways

November 28, 2023

Christian Posta

Five Reasons to Avoid Apigee as Your API Gateway

August 22, 2023

Christian Posta

The New Approach to API Management

August 18, 2023

Christian Posta

In 2023, A Service Mesh Should Not Be Complex

July 27, 2023

Christian Posta

Running Istio with Cilium’s Kube Proxy Replacement

July 17, 2023

Christian Posta

Is 2023 the year of convergence of API gateway and service mesh?

March 22, 2023

Christian Posta

Compliance and zero trust with Istio ambient mesh

March 20, 2023

Christian Posta, Rohit Ghumare

Announcing the first class of Solo Ambassadors

February 07, 2023

Christian Posta

Why I’m so excited about SoloCon 2022

February 24, 2022

Yuval Kohavi

Idit Levine, Christian Posta, Yuval Kohavi

eBPF for Service Mesh? Yes, but Envoy Proxy is here to stay

December 16, 2021

Christian Posta

Configuration as Data, GitOps, and Controllers: it’s not simple for multi-cluster

September 14, 2021

Christian Posta

Challenges of running Istio distroless images

April 28, 2021

Christian Posta

Distroless FIPS-compliant Istio

February 23, 2021

Christian Posta

Configuring CORS and JWT in Istio for secure, cross-origin requests

February 02, 2021

Christian Posta

[Tutorial] Rewriting Express Routes with Gloo Edge

December 30, 2020

Christian Posta

Multi-cluster Istio on EKS-D and AWS EKS

December 07, 2020

Christian Posta

The evolution of VM support in Istio 1.8 (with video)

November 25, 2020

Christian Posta

Hoot: What’s new in Istio 1.8

November 02, 2020

Christian Posta

Step by Step: Datastax Cassandra with Istio and SNI routing

October 12, 2020

Yuval Kohavi

Christian Posta, Yuval Kohavi

The State of WebAssembly in Envoy Proxy

September 25, 2020

Christian Posta

Istio 1.7’s improved VM support, step-by-step

August 22, 2020

Christian Posta

Open Service Mesh ingress with Gloo API Gateway (w/ Video!)

August 11, 2020

Christian Posta

Securing Kiali in Istio 1.7

August 07, 2020

Christian Posta

[Videos] Avoiding Downtime With Istio 1.6 Certificate Rotation

July 14, 2020

Christian Posta

Technical Deep Dive: Developer Portal for Istio

May 21, 2020

Christian Posta

Istio 1.5 API Gateway with Gloo

April 10, 2020

Christian Posta

Declarative WebAssembly deployment for Istio

March 19, 2020

Christian Posta

Istio as an example of when NOT to do Microservices

January 17, 2020

Christian Posta

Decentralized, self-service Envoy edge gateway with Gloo

January 16, 2020

Christian Posta

Autopilot: an operator framework for building workflows on top of service mesh

November 18, 2019

Christian Posta

Custom Auth Plugins for Envoy based API Gateway

November 05, 2019

Christian Posta

Service Mesh for the developer workflow, a series

November 05, 2019

Christian Posta

Challenges of adopting service mesh in enterprise organizations

October 22, 2019

Christian Posta

Getting started with a service mesh starts with a Gateway

August 30, 2019

Christian Posta

Running Envoy API Gateways on Kubernetes or Consul or both

August 16, 2019

Christian Posta

Decentralized approach to API Gateways for OpenShift on your way to service mesh

August 09, 2019

Christian Posta

Istio the Easy Way (Again!)

July 23, 2019

Christian Posta

Service Mesh the easy way with AWS App Mesh and SuperGloo

June 16, 2019

Christian Posta

Minimize the blast radius of changes with Solo.io Gloo Gateway and Weaveworks Flagger

May 31, 2019

Christian Posta

The need for a standard, service mesh API

May 18, 2019

Christian Posta

Solo.io Streamlines Service Mesh and Serverless Adoption for Enterprises in Google Cloud

May 03, 2019

Christian Posta

Guidance for Building a Control Plane for Envoy Part 5: Deployment Tradeoffs

April 25, 2019

Christian Posta

Istio the Easy Way

April 23, 2019

Christian Posta

Debugging Istio control plane with Squash

April 19, 2019

Christian Posta

Guidance for Building a Control Plane for Envoy Part 3: Domain Specific Configuration

March 26, 2019

Christian Posta

Using Gloo as an ingress gateway with Istio and mTLS (updated for Istio 1.1!)

March 19, 2019

Christian Posta

Guidance for Building a Control Plane for Envoy Proxy, Part 2: Identify Components

March 07, 2019

Christian Posta

Running Gloo as a Kubernetes Ingress for bare-metal clusters with MetalLB

February 22, 2019

Christian Posta

Exposing microservices running in AWS EKS with a microservices/API gateway like Solo Gloo

February 08, 2019

Christian Posta

API Gateways are going through an identity crisis

January 21, 2019

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Easy AWS EKS cluster provisioning and user access

January 10, 2019