Running an API Gateway on Istio - Pitfalls and Learnings

Explore the challenges and solutions of running a large-scale API Gateway on Istio Service Mesh in this 25-minute conference talk by Karim Lakhani from Intuit. Gain insights into managing one of Intuit's largest workloads, serving billions of requests daily across thousands of pods and multiple Kubernetes clusters. Learn about the hurdles encountered, including non-centralized IP filtering, cross-AZ data transfer costs, auto-scaling challenges with Istio sidecar, and partitioning concerns. Discover adopted solutions such as canary deployment strategies, optimized bin packing for improved performance and cost-efficiency, and implementing region failovers using Argo workflows. Understand how to scale and run a high-performance application while keeping costs in check in a complex Istio environment.