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Istio Ambient entered its alpha phase as part of Istio 1.18, and the dedicated Istio community is actively working towards driving Ambient to beta. The introduction of Ambient aims to simplify workload operations and reduce infrastructure costs. In this presentation, Lin, a founding member of Istio, will demonstrate how to seamlessly extend your cloud-native applications with Wasm without the need for sidecars or application restarts, utilizing Istio Ambient. Through live demonstrations, she will showcase the usage of Istio Ambient and Istio’s WasmPlugin resource, enabling dynamic extension of cloud-native applications without interrupting application requests. Lin will explain the entire process, from configuring Wasm for the workload to setting up the corresponding Envoy configuration for the workload’s waypoint proxy. Witness the power of Wasm as it extends cloud-native applications running in Kubernetes, free from sidecars, with an engaging live demo.

eBPF technology is driving a transformative shift in the network stack, enabling secure code execution within a protected kernel sandbox. This facilitates instant metrics retrieval and the implementation of network routing and security policies. Additionally, eBPF empowers us to reshape traffic at a low level with XDP, which delivers high-performance programmable packet processing seamlessly integrated with the kernel. This revolutionary impact extends to the Kubernetes networking landscape, as eBPF serves as the core technology behind projects like Cilium and its CNI plugin that provides high-performance network capabilities, but such powerful technologies remain enigmatic for many. The objective of this workshop is to dive into the inner workings of these technologies, participants will learn the basics of eBPF and CNI, and they will gain hands-on experience in creating a CNI plugin for Kubernetes utilizing eBPF, demystifying the underlying mechanics of eBPF-based projects.

Wished you knew how to contribute code for Istio, the most popular service mesh and a CNCF graduated project? Where to get started with contributing to Istio? How to get involved with the community? Join us to learn an overview of architecture on how Istio works, how to set up a development environment, how to contribute, develop and test Istio useful in day to day use. Unblock yourself and others! It’s easier than you think! We will go through useful resources and ways to interact with the project and community, to explore the benefits of Istio and get you started on your first contribution effectively!

Istio, a CNCF recent graduated project, is the most popular service mesh, simplifying observability, traffic management, and policy for your services. The project, its roadmap, and the community have gone through several changes over the past few months and we’d like to give some updates. We will discuss the project and its health, new features added in recent releases, progress on the new ambient sidecar-less data plane mode, Gateway API support, the project roadmap, and much more. We will also discuss the plans for the future of community-building efforts and how you can help us make Istio the best that it can be.

It has been ~6 years since the first service meshes hit the market, and hundreds if not thousands of users are employing the technology in production today. As the space has matured and meshes are used at scale, many users are wondering about why certain constraints exist in their mesh of choice. Come hear maintainers of 3 CNCF service mesh projects discuss the very real tradeoffs they’re making everyday with topics ranging from eBPF, sidecarless, Rust proxies, multicluster, and user experience.