Elevator Pitch
Master the art of day 2 service mesh operations with multi-cluster Istio mesh for Kubernetes, learning how to bridge the clusters for high availability, resiliency, cross-cluster service dicover, traffic shifting and unified service security.
Description
Mesh Without Borders: Deploying Istio across multiple Kubernetes clusters
As organizations scale their Kubernetes footprints, the single cluster mindset can quickly become a bottleneck for sustaining high availabilty, experimentation, cloud migrations to name a few. Architects must look towards multi-cluster strategies, but connecting these environments securely and efficiently is challenging. In this session, we will demystify the complexities of Istio Multi-Cluster mesh. We’ll move past the theory of day one Istio installations and dive into the day two realities of cross-cluster communication, global load balancing, cross cluster service canary deployments and unified security policies.
Key takeaway include
*Architectural Patterns: Comparing Multi-Primary vs. Primary-Remote topologies to find the right fit for your organization *Security at Scale: Implementing cross-cluster mTLS and consistent identity management without the manual overhead *Traffic Management: A live demonstration of seamless failover and traffic shifting across disparate clusters *Observability: Visualizing a unified service graph that spans multiple geographical regions
Notes
Technical requirements for the audience
- Experience with managing production grade Kubernetes clusters at scale is desired
- Experience with service mesh technologies like Istio or Linkerd
- For those who would like to experiment for themselves or their organization, access to two clusters (GKE/EKS/AKS/Kind) with some command line tools like kubectl, istioctl and helm CLI on their workstation
Why Rohit Mishra for this talk?
Drawing on over 19 years of IT experience and a decade focused specifically on cloud architecture and Kubernetes, Rohit offers a deep, production-hardened perspective. Working for a hyperscaler (Google Cloud) and helping some of it’s maruqee customers adopt and scale cloud native, there is a proven ability to translate complex cloud native computing concepts into actionable insights. Rohit’s expereience in the cloud native space ensures the session is grounded in real-world cloud networking, security and resiliency challeneges that cloud first organizations face.