Create resilient multi-cluster, multi-regional and multi-tenant architectures with Istio and K8s

Presented by Ameer Abbas at IstioCon 2022.

Building distributed applications is hard! Building globally scalable distributed applications is harder! Maintaining and growing these services as your business grows is even harder!

This session takes an opinionated approach on how to create globally scalable platforms on multi-cluster, multi-regional and multi-tenant Kubernetes cluster architectures using Istio.

The session covers (design opinions and reasonings for) the following concepts.

Designing multi-cluster Kubernetes platforms
Application multi-tenancy
Global networking, ingress, multi-cluster load balancing, locality considerations
Security - AuthN, AuthZ, NetPol
Ops - Observability, dashboards
Application and cluster life-cycle management
Demo (on GCP)

[benzenatizineeddine]

I wish there were some code examples to back it up.

But at least we have a solid theory now, all is left is to go through the doc and apply it.

Thanks man you saved my weeks of kubernetes documentation ❤

[kiarashazarnia]

Thanks for doing the math and other inspirational ideas, but the title is not so exact for the presentation, I was expecting sth more focused on Istio and how it contributes to the problem with a minimal demo.

[xnullcharacter]

This was quite informative, thanks a lot.

[abdulbasit]

Really great design thinking session, thank you.