"Istio 1.3 What is new" talk I gave at the Istio meetup at All things open 2019.

1. What is new with
Istio 1.3?
Lin Sun
Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
@linsun_unc
Photo by Markos Mant on Unsplash

2. IBM Cloud
2019 Istio Themes
• Project Sustainability
• Layering and Extensibility
• Improved Experience
• Performance and Scalability

3. IBM Cloud
Istio 2019 Predictable Releases
Istio
1.0
Launch
-July
2018
2018 2019
Istio
1.1
February
Istio
1.2
June
Istio
1.3
Septem
ber
2020
Istio
1.4
Unreleased

4. IBM Cloud
2019 Istio Key Updates
• All outbound traffic is allowed by default
• Mixer-policy is not enabled by default
• Multicluster Istio for non flat networks
• Introduce Sidecar resource
• Various istioctl UX improvements (*)
• Intelligent Protocol Sniffing (*)

5. IBM Cloud
istioctl add-to-mesh
https://istio.io/docs/reference/commands/istioctl/#istioctl-experimental-add-to-mesh

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istioctl describe
https://istio.io/docs/ops/troubleshooting/istioctl-describe/

7. IBM Cloud
Intelligent Protocol Sniffing
https://istio.io/docs/setup/additional-setup/requirements/

8. IBM Cloud
containerPort Requirement Removed for
Istio
https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-api/v1.10/

9. IBM Cloud
Health Check Improvement
https://istio.io/docs/ops/app-health-check/

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Control plane monitoring improvement

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Telemetry reporting for external services
https://istio.io/blog/2019/monitoring-external-service-traffic/

12. IBM Cloud
Very Experimental Mixer-telemetry Optional
For HTTP Metrics
https://github.com/istio/istio/wiki/Mixerless-HTTP-Telemetry

13. IBM Cloud
Policy checksPolicy
checks
Policy Telemetry
data flow
management flow

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Initial operator support
https://istio.io/docs/setup/install/operator/

15. IBM Cloud
How to contribute
• Contribute via discuss or slack
• Gain membership Status
• Consult existing maintainers
• Gain maintainer status
• Attend WG Meetings

16. IBM Cloud
• Preview available around
KubeCon US 2019
• Final book available by
end of 2019