Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
I'm so glad to hear the announcement that Istio project is now a graduated Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project.
The maturity of the community is remarkable, as seen at Istio Day, which is held concurrently with KubeCon, and I thought it was very reasonable to graduate at this time, given the maturity and popularity of Istio's features. Congratulations and best wishes for the future.
A quick recap of Istio at KubeCon Europe, at the RAI in Amsterdam.
Service mesh adoption has been steadily rising over the past few years as cloud native adoption has matured across industries.
-- Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of CNCF
And just because it graduate does not mean that its activities will stop. The project work continues uninterrupted.
Istio 1.19: New sidecar container feature in Alpha in Kubernetes 1.28
With the rise of microservices architectures as the de facto pattern for authoring modern applications, connecting, observing, and securing the complex landscape of containers and services has become a challenge for engineers. Google is proud of our role in the creation and development of Istio as a comprehensive solution to this hard problem. Istio’s graduation, as well as its leading position as the world’s most adopted service mesh technology, reinforces our belief that it should be easy for everyone to benefit from secure, robust service-based applications.
-- Cameron Etezadi, Director of Engineering, Google Cloud
VMware is delighted to celebrate Istio’s graduation within CNCF. Service mesh is a key part of cloud native architecture, and Istio provides a uniform and efficient way to better secure, connect, and monitor modern app services – making it the choice for enterprises. VMware has been an advocate for Istio and shares in the vision for a robust cloud native ecosystem for application networking. VMware looks forward to its continued collaboration with the Istio project and community to deliver more secure connectivity solutions for enterprises.
-- Niran Evenchen, Senior Product Line Manager, VMware Tanzu