In this series of blog posts we had an introduction to Istio, and an overview of its security features. This post completes the series with a look at how we can leverage Istio’s traffic control features to provide increased observability and control over the operation and deployment of our applications.

Guest post by Luke Bond
Luke is a co-founder of Control Plane (https://control-plane.io), a security-focused Kubernetes consultancy based in London. Luke has delivered critical national infrastructure on Kubernetes for the UK government, once built a Docker-based PaaS, and has previously worked as a developer and consultant, helping teams deliver software faster and with increased confidence by embracing container technologies and workflows.
This is the second in our series of blog posts on Istio, and will focus on Istio’s security features: what they are, how they work and how they help protect your workloads and your data.
Building, deploying and maintaining secure, cloud native software requires multiple overlapping solutions at different stages of the …
Istio, Google’s open source project for large scale, containerized application management was released in May 2017 and has undergone rapid development since then, culminating in the landmark 1.0 release in July 2018. In this blog post we will be exploring what Istio is, how it works and how to adopt it. In subsequent …