Cafe 057: What is Istio and what monitoring use cases we see at Dynatrace with Alois Mayr

Alois Mayr gives us a great overview of Istio, why it is such a hot topic right now and he covers the key use cases offered by its core component Envoy: traffic routing, deployment automation, secure communication, logging and monitoring.

Alois is Product Manager for Kubernetes at Dynatrace and therefore always trying to drive the product forward to support use cases our customers are demanding. This includes: what’s happening within Istio istelf? Does it impact latency between services? How about code-level and not just request level visibility? Our users also demand end user monitoring as well as the ability to support full stack and cross platform. If you want to learn more also check out this blog from Adam who covered his learnings from Google NEXT 2018.

https://twitter.com/mayralois
https://istio.io/
https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/google-cloud-next-2018-recap/