CNCF Live Webinar:Securing your workload communications with Open Service Mesh
In the cloud native era, exploitation of applications is becoming more and more prevalent. With the recent stable v1.0.0 release of Open Service Mesh , you can experience a simplified experience for managing and securing your…
CNCF On-Demand Webinar: Simplifying Service Mesh Operations with Open Service Mesh
See how Open Service Mesh (OSM) can quickly provide your cloud native application with the most common needs of service mesh in a quick and simple way.
Cloud Native Live: Streamline service mesh observability with Kuma & OpenTelemetry
Join us in diving head-first into Service Mesh Observability and OpenTelemetry. 🌐🔎In this livestream, we’re honing in on observability, with OpenTelemetry. 📈📋Observability plays a vital role in comprehending and managing microservices, enabling us to effectively diagnose…
SDxCentral: “Istio Service Mesh hits milestone (years after the open source project should have)”
The open source Istio service mesh project is hitting a major milestone today as it officially graduates to be a full project at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Istio describes a service mesh as “a dedicated infrastructure layer…
Platform engineering maturity: From toolchain to self-service
Most platform engineering conversations tend to split into two rooms pretty quickly. The first room is full of teams who don’t have a platform yet. Scattered scripts, tribal knowledge, and every team is doing the same…
A practical guide to solving when zero+zero=two in mesh observability
A Service Mesh like Istio, together with Kiali gives you a lot on day one. You install the mesh, point Prometheus at it, and suddenly you have request rate, latency, error rate, and a fairly good…
Network boundary for AI agents using NGINX and OpenTelemetry
I recently had an interesting conversation at a KCD about OpenClaw with one of the attendees, and they remarked that they wouldn’t put an agent in their network, because “we don’t know what that thing really…
OTel and mesh-derived metrics: A 2026 reference
If you already run an OpenTelemetry pipeline, you have good visibility into what your applications are doing. This blog post is about what you don’t see yet: the east-west traffic between your services, measured at the…
New beta capabilities and experimental support aim to simplify service mesh adoption while expanding Istio’s role in next-generation AI infrastructure Key Highlights: KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON EUROPE, AMSTERDAM—25 MARCH, 2025—The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds…