Operating Istio in Production: From Fundamentals to the SRE Lens

Once microservices are running in production, controlling traffic, securing service-to-service communication, and understanding system behavior become real operational challenges. Istio tackles these problems by moving control over service communication into the platform layer.

In this talk, I’ll cover Istio fundamentals and explore operating in production from an SRE perspective, showing how Istio helps manage traffic, enforce security, and gain observability. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of how Istio works in production and why it’s a powerful tool for running reliable, secure, and observable microservices.