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Published on 09/27/2022
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Istio accepted as a CNCF incubating project
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Istio has just been accepted as a CNCF incubation project. As you might read from all other similar posts today: Hooray!
Shortest Istio history ever
Since the first Istio version in 2017, Istio has come a long way in a little more than five years. At the beginning, frankly, Istio was a very complex system to install, operate, troubleshoot and upgrade. It had more than 50 CRDs at one point. Upgrades during the early releases were especially prone to instability. Trust us, we've been there :) A lot has changed since then. Today, it is much easier to manage an Istio mesh, there are several tools to help troubleshoot issues, and APIs are much more stable even between versions. (Of course, Calisti The Cisco Service Mesh Manager makes Istio even better ;)) This growth lead Istio to be the most widely adopted service mesh solution on the market today.Future
Based on the past five years, we are fairly confident that many great things are to come in the Istio ecosystem in the next five years as well. Being accepted to the CNCF is a huge step into the bright future of the project. Being in the CNCF, just like all the other relevant cloud-native tools (K8s, Envoy, etc.), anticipates well-established governance and even greater user adoption in the future. We, at Cisco, are very much looking forward to being part of this journey with Istio.Cisco & Istio
Cisco has been involved with Istio in many ways over the years and plans to continue to do so:- We initiated the Istio CNI project and contributed to the very first multi-cluster topologies.
- We announced an open-source Istio operator in early 2019 to help Istio's adoption.
- We open-sourced Cluster Registry to support automatic Istio multi-cluster setups.
- We built products around Istio:
- We evangelize Istio through blog posts, webinars, and presenting at conferences and meetups.
- In Cisco, multiple teams are Istio end users, using it for various use cases.
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