Exploring Service Mesh and the Cloud Native Landscape

Open at Intel

In this KubeCon interview, Keith Mattix, engineering lead at Microsoft, talks about his experience and involvement in the open source community and the Istio project. He discusses his work in upstream service mesh and related technologies in the Kubernetes networking space. The conversation delves deeply into the evolution of open source offerings, highlighting the development and application of the Gateway API and the GAMMA Initiative. Maddox shares his vision for the future of these projects and talks about the value that developments in the open source ecosystem bring to end users.

00:00 Introduction and Guest Background

01:26 Role and Involvement in Open Source

01:55 Understanding Service Mesh

05:18 Istio's Journey in CNCF

07:19 Benefits of Open Source Collaboration

09:58 Gateway API Version 1.0 and Its Importance

13:55 Collaboration with the Gateway API Community

14:23 Future Goals for Gateway API

14:49 The Need for Standardization in Mesh Implementations

16:07 The Importance of User Adoption

16:43 Excitement for Open Source

18:09 The Impact of Infrastructure Improvements

20:10 The Importance of Kubernetes

21:51 Closing Remarks and Future Aspirations

Guest:

Keith Mattix is a Senior Engineer on the Open Service Mesh team at Microsoft Azure. As a maintainer of the Service Mesh Interface CNCF project, Keith is a founding lead of the GAMMA initiative under Kubernetes SIG Network. Keith has written a lot of code that’s led to some interesting side quests, and he’s passionate about sharing those lessons and experiences with others. His love of distributed systems is eventually consistent.