Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 01:07:49 +0000
<p>Due to popular demand, this week <a href="https://twitter.com/francesc">Francesc</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a> are joined by Product Manager <a href="https://twitter.com/varungyan">Varun Talwar</a> and Senior Staff Software Engineer <a href="https://twitter.com/SvenMawson">Sven Mawson</a> to discuss all things <a href="https://istio.io/">Istio</a>, an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices.</p> <h5 id="about-varun-talwar">About Varun Talwar</h5> <p>Product Manager in Google Cloud; founding PM on <a href="https://twitter.com/grpcio">@grpcio</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/IstioMesh">@IstioMesh</a></p> <h5 id="about-sven-mawson">About Sven Mawson</h5> <p>Software Engineer in Google Cloud; founder of <a href="https://twitter.com/IstioMesh">@IstioMesh</a></p> <h5 id="cool-things-of-the-week">Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li>gSlack: Integrating Google Cloud Platform with Slack <a href="https://blog.doit-intl.com/gslack-9391be7c191a">blog</a></li> <li>Solution guide: Building connected vehicle apps with Cloud IoT Core <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/06/solution-guide-building-connected-vehicle-apps-with-Cloud-IoT-Core.html"> blog</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/solutions/designing-connected-vehicle-platform"> solution</a></li> <li>Why did the Gopher spend so much at the drug store? <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic/status/884462047852863488">punchline</a></li> <li>Super Mario Run Case Study <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-29lW2EWock">youtube</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>Istio <a href="https://istio.io/">home page</a> <a href="https://istio.io/docs/concepts/what-is-istio/overview.html">overview</a> <a href="https://istio.io/docs/concepts/what-is-istio/goals.html">design goals</a></li> <li>OSI Network Model <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model">wikipedia</a></li> <li>Kubernetes sidecar containers <a href="http://blog.kubernetes.io/2015/06/the-distributed-system-toolkit-patterns.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Installing Istio <a href="https://istio.io/docs/tasks/installing-istio.html">docs</a></li> <li>Monitoring via <a href="https://prometheus.io/">Prometheus</a> (<a href="https://gcppodcast.com/post/episode-82-prometheus-with-julius-volz/">podcast</a>) and <a href="https://grafana.com/">Grafana</a></li> <li>Envoy L7 proxy <a href="https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy">homepage</a></li> <li>Istio Ingress Controller <a href="https://istio.io/docs/tasks/ingress.html">docs</a></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://istio.io/"><img src="https://googlecloudpodcast.libsyn.com/images/post/istio.png" style="margin: auto;" /></a></div> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>If I want to apply Istio to an existing Kubernetes application, how do I do it?</p> <ul> <li>Managing microservices with the Istio service mesh <a href="http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/05/managing-microservices-with-istio-service-mesh.html"> blog</a></li> <li><code>istioctl kube-inject</code> <a href="https://istio.io/docs/reference/commands/istioctl.html#synopsis-5"> docs</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="where-can-you-find-us-next">Where can you find us next?</h5> <p>Francesc will be at <a href="https://www.gophercon.com/">GopherCon</a> in Denver. He also recently released the <a href="https://github.com/campoy/go-tooling-workshop">Go Tooling in Action</a> workshop and a new <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5ufcpTGIJM">justforfunc</a> episode!</p> <p>Mark will be speaking at <a href="https://cloudplatformonline.com/summit-NewYork-2017.html">Google Cloud Summit, New York</a> with Phoenix One Games in July, as well as TA’ing the <a href="https://cloudplatformonline.com/summit-NewYork-2017-Bootcamp.html"> Kubernetes Bootcamp</a>. He also released the <a href="http://www.compoundtheory.com/scaling-dedicated-game-servers-with-kubernetes-part-2-managing-cpu-and-memory/"> second blog post</a> in his series about running Game Servers on Kubernetes.</p>
