SoloCon: Full Schedule

12:45pm EDT

Extending Istio and Gloo Mesh with Web Assembly

WebAssembly filters allow users the power to extend and customize Istio to their liking. But how do organizations actually develop them? Tooling exists for traditional software development, but established methods and tooling are difficult to come by in the emerging WebAssembly ecosystem. In this talk we will attempt to answer the following, based on our experience working Istio + WebAssembly in customer environments for over one year

Speakers

Shane O'Donnell

Director of Engineering, solo.io

Shane is currently a director of engineering at solo.io, where he works on the multi-cluster application networking product Gloo Platform. With over 12 years experience working in startups, Shane has a passion for growing and mentoring high performing teams, as well as working on... Read More →

Yuval Kohavi

Chief Architect, Solo.io

Yuval Kohavi is the chief architect at Solo.io working across the portfolio of products and open source projects including Istio, Gloo-Edge and Bumblebee. Prior to Solo.io Yuval held various software and customer engineering roles at EMC, Intigua and IDF.

Tuesday March 23, 2021 12:45pm - 1:25pm EDT
Track 2

Service Mesh

1:30pm EDT

Istio Roadmap Session

Lin Sun and Louis Ryan from the Istio technical oversight committee, lead an update on the development of the project and the roadmap for 2021.

Speakers

Louis Ryan

Principle Engineer, Google

Louis Ryan is a Principal Engineer at Google working on APIs and microservices. Prior to working on Istio he co-authored the GRPC spec and ran the infrastructure that supports Googles consumer facing APIs.

Lin Sun

Head of Open-Source, solo.io

Lin is the Head of Open Source at Solo.io, also serving as a CNCF TOC member and ambassador. She has been actively involved with the Istio service mesh since its inception in 2017, holding positions on both the Istio Steering Committee and Technical Oversight Committee. Prior to her... Read More →

Tuesday March 23, 2021 1:30pm - 2:10pm EDT
Track 2

Istio

2:15pm EDT

Developer Portal for Istio: Catalog Open API and gRPC

A developer portal is a necessary piece of technology when facilitating access to services running in your architecture. In this talk, we'll see how the Developer portal for Istio evolves to support more and more workflows and technologies to enable self-service, policy automation, and API security deep within a mesh.

Speakers

Marco Schmidt

Software Engineer, Solo.io

Chris Gaun

Director of Product Management, Solo.io

Chris manages the Gloo product portfolio at Solo.io

Tuesday March 23, 2021 2:15pm - 2:55pm EDT
Track 2

Service Mesh

3:00pm EDT

Adopting Istio across 100 clusters at T-Mobile

Learn about T-Mobile’s journey of adopting Istio across 100+ clusters to support microservices for fraud detection, billing, sales and APIs across many teams. The talk will cover things such as tenancy, install/upgrade, feature adoption, CI/CD integration, and architecture tradeoffs.

Speakers

Joe Searcy

Staff Engineer, T-mobile

Joe leverages 16 years of experience within infrastructure and distributed systems across Telecommunications, High Frequency Trading, and various other industries in his role on the Platform Engineering team at T-Mobile. Joe helps lead a team of Rockstars to design, build, and maintain... Read More →

Tuesday March 23, 2021 3:00pm - 3:40pm EDT
Track 2

Istio

12:00pm EDT

Gloo Mesh Roadmap

Running a service mesh across multiple clusters, zones, or clouds increases operator burden for day-2 activities. In this talk, we'll see how Gloo Mesh aims to eliminate this burden and overhead.

Speakers

Joe Kelly

Software Engineer, Solo.io

Christian Posta

Global Field CTO, Solo.io

Christian Posta (@christianposta) is VP, Global Field CTO at Solo.io. He is the author of Istio in Action as well as many other books on cloud-native architecture and is well known in the cloud-native community for being a speaker, blogger (https://blog.christianposta.com) and contributor... Read More →

Wednesday March 24, 2021 12:00pm - 12:40pm EDT
Track 2

Service Mesh

12:45pm EDT

Istio and Gloo Mesh Security Model

In this talk, we dig deeply into Istio's security policies including Authentication/Authorizations and how it works under the covers with Envoy proxy

Speakers

Lawrence Gadban

Field Engineer, Solo.io

Lawrence is a Field Engineer at Solo.io where he primarily works directly with organizations of all sizes to architect, adopt, and implement various application networking components such as service mesh (e.g. Istio and Solo's Gloo Mesh) and Solo's API gateway Gloo Edge. Lawrence... Read More →

Wednesday March 24, 2021 12:45pm - 1:25pm EDT
Track 2

Istio

1:30pm EDT

Observability in Istio and Gloo Mesh

Collecting telemetry and logging in a service mesh across multiple clusters can be complex. In this session, we look at common multi-cluster observability patterns and how to solve problems like large-scale collection, querying, and aggregation.

Speakers

Scott Weiss

Architect & Coder, Solo.io

I’ve been working with the founders of solo since our days at EMC working on Mesos and Cloud Foundry. To me, service mesh is by far the most exciting innovation to emerge in this market since Kubernetes itself. I’m passionate about understanding and participating in this burgeoning... Read More →

Harvey Xia

Software Engineer, Solo.io

Wednesday March 24, 2021 1:30pm - 2:10pm EDT
Track 2

Istio, Service Mesh

2:15pm EDT

Ingress and Service Mesh One Step at a Time

How Pegasystems and Solo partnered to accelerate Pega's journey to Kubernetes and the service mesh. This would discuss how Pega started with Gloo and then moved to Gloo + Istio so that we could gradually introduce new technologies as our business requirements and knowledge of k8s/envoy grew.

Speakers

Bachir Berrachedi

Cloud Development Engineer Fellow, Pegasystems

Max Almanzor

Principal Cloud Development Engineer, Pegasystems

Max Almanzor is a Principal Cloud Development Engineer at Pegasystems. He provides architectural leadership for a team delivering a framework for automating networking and secure communication for Kubernetes based applications.

Wednesday March 24, 2021 2:15pm - 2:55pm EDT
Track 2

Service Mesh