1. Introduction to Solo.io
Christian Posta (@christianposta)
Global Field CTO

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CHRISTIAN POSTA
Global Field CTO, Solo.io
@christianposta
christian@solo.io
https://blog.christianposta.com
https://slideshare.net/ceposta

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Solo.io’s mission

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Solo.io solves API connectivity & communication challenges

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Why Envoy Proxy for API Infrastructure
• Neutral Foundation (CNCF)
• Large, diverse, vibrant community
• Built ground up for dynamic services
environment
• Dynamic configuration, driven by API
• Highly extensible
• L7 filters (HTTP/1, HTTP/2, gRPC,
redis, mysql, Kafka, etc)
• Deep signals telemetry out of the box
• Versatile deployment options

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Our customers’ challenges

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API connectivity & communication challenges
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Challenges
● Service discovery
● Load balancing
● Timeouts
● Retry / Budgets
● Circuit breaking
● Tracing
● Secure transport
● Extension

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API connectivity & communication challenges
SERVICE A
SERVICE B
SERVICE C
SERVICE D
SERVICE E
Challenges
● Entry point for services
● Establishing boundary
● AuthN/AuthZ
● Traffic routing
● Transformations
● Rate limiting
● Automation
● Extension

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API connectivity & communication challenges
Challenges
● Discovering APIs
● Documentation
● Self-service sign up
● Security
● Internal vs External
SERVICE A
SERVICE B
SERVICE C
SERVICE D
SERVICE E

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API connectivity & communication challenges
Challenges
● Multiple clusters
● Hybrid deployments
● Centralized view
● Consistency
● Security
● Configuration
● Federation
● Centralization vs
Decentralization
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Solo.io solves API connectivity & communication challenges
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API portal

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SERVICE A
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SERVICE D SERVICE E
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Solo.io solves API connectivity & communication challenges
Federation

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SERVICE F
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SERVICE A SERVICE C
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Solo.io solves API connectivity & communication challenges
Federation

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Extension (Web Assembly)
API Developer Portal

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ENVOY BASED API INFRASTRUCTURE JOURNEY
INNOVATION
MODERNIZE TO MICROSERVICES SERVICE MESH MANAGEMENT
ANY MESH - ANYWHERE
ADAPTIVE SERVICE MESH
Dev
Portal
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Technology timeline
SuperGloo
November 2018
SMI / Service
Mesh Hub
Announcement
May 2019
Web Assembly
Hub
December 2019
Public Announce
Solo.io, Gloo EE
December 2018
Gloo 1.0
October 2019
Web Assembly
for Istio
February 2020
Gloo OSS
March 2018
Solo Founded
Sept 2017
Service Mesh
Hub OSS / EE,
Dev Portal,
Service Mesh
Debugging
Q1 2020

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December 11, 2018
2018 TOP WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN CLOUD INNOVATION
Seventh Annual Award Honors Women Founders for Outstanding
Accomplishments in Cloud and Emerging Technologies, Sponsored by
Facebook, Intel, and Google.
Award Winning Innovation Enterprise and Open Source Credibility
Key Industry Collaborations

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What our customers say
ParkMobile partnered with Solo.io because we were looking for the
most innovative and flexible solutions on the market to power our
growing platform - Matt Ball, CTO Park Mobile
With Gloo Enterprise, Vonage has access to a single, cloud native
gateway that serves APIs spanning from legacy servers to modern
serverless and Kubernetes-based services - Sagi Dudai, CTO
Vonage
We selected Gloo Enterprise from Solo.io to serve as the API
Gateway for our new microservices based on the capabilities it
provides us for advanced traffic routing and authentication in our
cloud migration strategy. - Michael Souza, Engineer Carfax
Gloo Gateway is really “Enterprise Envoy”
- VP API technology, Nondisclosed Financial Co

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