Untangling Your Istio Mesh with Feature Gates

Explore how to simplify and manage Istio's complexity for microservices in this 32-minute conference talk by Niranjan Shankar from Microsoft. Learn to leverage Kubernetes admission controllers, Istio feature flags, and GitOps solutions to feature-gate your Istio setup and reduce the configuration surface area. Gain insights into criteria for determining which Istio capabilities to include or exclude from mesh environments, such as feature status, ease-of-use, resource consumption, and risk-level. Discover tools and techniques to restrict developers' access to certain Istio functionalities, fine-tuning options, and APIs, particularly experimental or alpha status ones, in production environments. Address concerns about Istio's complexity while harnessing its adaptability to various cloud environments for core service mesh use-cases.