Life of a Packet Through Istio

Explore the intricate journey of a network packet through Istio, a powerful service mesh for Kubernetes, in this comprehensive conference talk. Dive deep into Istio's advanced networking features, intelligent routing, resiliency, and security capabilities. Follow a packet's path from the internet and back, examining each component's configuration to maximize Istio's potential. Gain valuable insights into cloud and Kubernetes networking, pod construction, namespaces, Envoy interception, Pilot, Mixer, canaries, traffic splitting, circuit breaking, traffic mirroring, mTLS, Istio ingress and egress, and telemetry. Learn from Matt Turner, a software engineer at Tetrate, as he shares his expertise on Istio's architecture and its full range of capabilities.

Introduction
Matts background
Agenda
Recap
Network Interfaces
Kubernetes Networking
Pods
Network namespace
Sidecar model
Cycle model
Pod setup
Init containers
Final containers
Service mash
Finding pods
Service discovery