Authentication Policy and auto mTLS in Istio 1.5
(12 Mar 2020)
Learn how to enforce mTLS in Istio 1.5 at the cluster, namespace, workload, and port level.Building an Istio Service Mesh Across Anthos GKE and GKE On-Prem
(29 Oct 2019)
It’s tough to browse much of today’s microservices landscape without stumbling upon or thinking about a service mesh. Istio brings service mesh, service discovery, and visibility to microservices architectures which of course includes Kubernetes. During a recent event I built a demo showcasing an Istio-based service mesh that stretches across two different environments leveraging nothing but Istio Ingress Gateway services in GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) and GKE On-Prem (Google’s new On-Premise offering).
Running Apache Kafka Brokers on OpenShift 3.7 and Azure
(13 Feb 2018)
I have been hearing about Apache Kafka for a while now, many of our customers ask us about running the project inside containers. Lately I was lucky to have had the opportunity to work with a customer to try and get it deployed and processing messages on OpenShift. Kafka is used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming apps. It is horizontally scalable, fault-tolerant, wicked fast, and runs in production in thousands of companies.