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Celebrate Istio at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026.
By Francisco Herrera, for the Istio Community
Tracing parity between ambient and sidecar modes arrives with Istio 1.29 and Kiali 2.25, closing the workload visibility gap.
Istio's continuous integration will no longer run integration tests against unsupported Kubernetes versions.
By Francisco Herrera - Red Hat, Daniel Hawton - solo.io
Announcing the results of our annual election.
By Craig Box, for the Istio Steering Committee
What you can do with your Helm charts and signing keys to ensure you are not impacted by the migration to AWS.
By Steven Jin - Microsoft, Keith Mattix - Solo.io
What you can do today to ensure your clusters are not impacted by the retirement of `gcr.io/istio-release` and `registry.istio.io`.
By Steven Jin - Microsoft
How to use Istio Ambient mode to secure your flat on-prem network.
By Harshwardhan Mehrotra - One2N
A new unified API for extending Envoy proxies in Istio with WebAssembly and Lua, supporting both sidecar and ambient mode.
By Liam White - Docusign
Istio now supports wildcard ServiceEntry with DYNAMIC_DNS resolution, allowing sidecars to route traffic directly to wildcard HTTPS destinations while simplifying egress configuration.
By Rudrakh Panigrahi - Salesforce
Announcing the results of our Community Seat election and our Contribution Seat holders.
By Ram Vennam, for the Istio Steering Committee
What you can do today to ensure your clusters are not impacted by the retirement of `gcr.io/istio-release`.
By Steven Jin - Microsoft, John Howard - Solo.io
Addressing man-in-the-middle weaknesses in namespace-based multi-tenant setups.
By Lorin Lehawany - ERNW, Sven Nobis - ERNW
Celebrate Istio at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026.
By Francisco Herrera, for the Istio Community
Istio 1.29 arrives with ambient multi-network multicluster in Beta, with improvements in telemetry, connectivity and reliability.
By Gustavo Meira - Microsoft, Mikhail Krinkin - Microsoft
With Contribution Seats allocated, members are now invited to stand for election to our four Community Seats.
By Istio Steering Committee
Highlights from Istio Day and KubeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta.
By Faseela K, for the Istio Steering Committee
Celebrate Istio at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025.
By Francisco Herrera, for the Istio Community
Announcing the results of our annual election.
By Craig Box, for the Istio Steering Committee
Istio 1.27 adds alpha ambient multicluster support, extending ambient's familiar lightweight, modular architecture to deliver secure connectivity, discovery and load balancing across clusters.
By Jackie Maertens - Microsoft, Keith Mattix - Microsoft, Mikhail Krinkin - Microsoft, Steven Jin - Microsoft
A smarter, dynamic way to optimize AI traffic routing based on real-time metrics and the unique characteristics of inference workloads.