Ambient Operations: Automating Istio Orchestration with Argo

Explore the automation of Istio orchestration using Argo in this 30-minute conference talk by Mitch Connors from Aviatrix and Christian Hernandez from Akuity. Delve into the world of service meshes and their growing adoption, with 47% of CNCF End User companies reporting production use. Address the challenges of maintaining service meshes, including monthly upgrades for thousands of sidecars to mitigate vulnerabilities. Learn about Istio's Ambient Mode, which moves the proxy out of the sidecar, enabling fully declarative upgrades and rollbacks. Through a series of demos, discover how to build an operations platform for Istio using Argo, allowing for automatic upgrade testing across dev, staging, and production environments. Gain insights into progressive rollout strategies for new Istio versions across cluster applications and learn how to implement automatic rollbacks in case of outages.