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One of the most special moments for me on Day 2 of #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon North America 2025 was seeing two incredible people I had the privilege of nominating, walk on stage to receive their Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Community Awards. John Howard received the Top Committer Award, recognizing his unmatched impact across the CNCF ecosystem — with over 15,000 contributions across 130 CNCF repositories. Beyond his technical leadership, John quietly ensures CI pipelines run smoothly, oversees release management while mentoring new release leads, reviews RFCs, triages GitHub issues, and answers countless community questions across Slack and mailing lists. He not only drives the technical direction of Istio and related projects but also mentors and supports hundreds of contributors, helping to build a thriving, sustainable open-source community. (On a personal note — John was one of the first people who helped me when I started my own Istio journey) Daniel Hawton received the Chop Wood Carry Water Award, honoring his tireless behind-the-scenes dedication that keeps the Istio project strong and secure. Since joining in 2022, he’s served as release manager for multiple versions, co-led the Product Security Working Group, maintained documentation and testing infrastructure, and mentored new contributors — always showing up with humility, consistency, and heart. It was truly rewarding to see both of them recognized for their incredible work and spirit of collaboration. Congratulations, John and Daniel — you make all of us in the Istio community proud! 💙 Congratulations to all other winners too 🙂

Heading to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025? Check out our guide to make sure you don’t miss the best Istio sessions, contributor meetups, and Project Pavilion activities! Plan your schedule and catch up with the folks shaping the future of service mesh. 👉 https://lnkd.in/etKtqejH #KubeCon #Istio #CloudNative #ServiceMesh

Standard Istio vs Ambient Mesh comes down to: ✅ No more sidecars in Ambient ✅ Splitting L4 and L7 vs having it in the sidecar In this video, I break down the why behind Ambient Mesh and the full installation process. https://buff.ly/FqGGRCf #kubernetes #devops #platformengineering

🚀 My #AI_Dev keynote with Mark Collier Ezequiel Lanza, MSc. Ricardo Rocha is out! - The 3 pillars of AI - Sovereign AI - A live demo of Kubeflow & Grafana + how AI is being used at CERN - My own live demo of agentgateway as ingress gateway, LLM gateway and MCP gateway with kagent, Istio, Jaeger, kgateway, Kubernetes, Argo Project, Prometheus, Kiali and GitHub MCP server 👏 Check it out! https://lnkd.in/eRvpwmwi

☸️⛵ 𝗛𝘆𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝗖𝗹𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 (𝗔𝘇𝘂𝗿𝗲 🔗 𝗔𝗪𝗦) 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗜𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼 🛡️ In today’s enterprise landscape, 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝘆𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 are no longer optional—they are essential for scalability, resiliency, and regulatory compliance. I recently worked on designing a 𝗛𝘆𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝗖𝗹𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 that connects workloads across 𝗔𝘇𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗞𝘂𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 (𝗔𝗞𝗦) and 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝗞𝗦, powered by Istio 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝘀𝗵 and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)𝗞𝘂𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗔𝗣𝗜. 🔎 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 (𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱): 1️⃣ 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 → Seamlessly received and processed across clusters. 2️⃣ 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀-𝗖𝗹𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 → Endpoints shared between Azure and AWS. 3️⃣ 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗔𝗣𝗜 + 𝗜𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 → HTTPRoutes (e.g., /hello, /) securely route traffic across environments. 4️⃣ 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲-𝘁𝗼-𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 → Services (A in Cluster 1, B + Echoserver in Cluster 2) interact transparently, as if they were in a single logical cluster. 5️⃣ 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 → Network 1 (Azure) and Network 2 (AWS) interconnected with policy-driven configuration. ✨ 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘀: ✅ 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: No single point of failure; workloads failover across clouds. ✅ 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: Burst workloads into AWS or Azure dynamically. ✅ 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆: Mutual TLS (mTLS) across service mesh ensures end-to-end encryption. ✅ 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: Decoupled application layer, allowing services to run on any cloud. ✅ 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲-𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗴: Gateway API adoption prepares organizations for the next-gen Kubernetes ingress/egress standard. 💡 This architecture enables enterprises to 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱-𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰, 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀, aligning with digital transformation goals and governance needs. 🌍 In an era where 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸-𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸, hybrid multi-cluster designs like this empower organizations to 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲. 👉 I’d love to hear from other cloud and DevSecOps professionals: How are you solving 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 in your organization? Have you adopted the 𝗞𝘂𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗔𝗣𝗜 yet, or still using Ingress? #Kubernetes #Istio #ServiceMesh #MultiCloud #AWS #Azure #DevOps #CloudArchitecture #HybridCloud

I haven’t posted much about Istio Ambient lately. Not because I stopped using it—quite the opposite. I’ve been running Ambient for all my AI agents, MCP servers, and apps, and I simply haven’t had to think about it. ✨ It just works. The mesh delivers its benefits effortlessly, no more 🐞 debugging. And that’s exactly the outcome we had in mind when we started Istio Ambient. 🚀

Excited to be speaking at Istio Day during Kubecon NA this fall with Michael Bolot about the work we've been doing to build a service mesh atop Istio for databases! Istio doesn't just stop at microservices, and while it’s not easy, we've found there are a lot of benefits to running a Service Mesh across the stack. I look forward to sharing some of our design decisions and some of the hiccups we’ve hit along the way. https://lnkd.in/ezxitrfm

Exploring kagent with Istio ambient mesh — Visualizing Traffic in Kiali. Ready to integrate your AI agents and MCP servers into Kubernetes and Istio ambient mesh? 🤔

Beyond excited 🎉 to be doing a live demo during the opening keynote of AI_dev with Mark Collier and Ricardo Rocha in beautiful Amsterdam 🇳🇱! Even more fun — I’ll be competing ⚡with my fellow Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) TOC member, Ricardo Rocha, who’s always 🔥 at delivering live demos! I’ll be showcasing agentgateway with LLMs, AI agents, MCP servers, Argo Project, Jaeger, Istio, and maybe a few other surprises! ✨ Check out the AI_dev schedule: https://lnkd.in/eqx5QCXR