Panel: Ask Me Anything About Istio Service Mesh - Lin Sun & Neeraj Poddar, Solo.io; John Howard, Google; Mitch Connors, Aviatrix & Eric Van Norman, IBM
Istio ambient reached alpha as part of Istio 1.18, and the Istio community is diligently working towards driving Ambient to beta. The introduction of Ambient aims to simplify workload operations and reduce infrastructure costs. Whether you are currently using Istio or considering its adoption, you may be pondering whether to continue with sidecars once Ambient reaches production-ready status. In this panel discussion, esteemed members of the Istio Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) from Google, IBM, Solo, and Aviatrix will share their valuable insights on Istio, including ambient, and the future of Istio. Join us for a live interactive session, where our panel of experts will address your most challenging inquiries related to Istio! Initial seeding questions: - What exactly is Istio ambient mesh? - Why would someone want a sidecar-less service mesh? - Does eBPF solve all service mesh problems? - When users should stay with sidecars when ambient becomes production ready?
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