Envoy, with Matt Klein - a podcast by Adam Glick and Craig Box

The Envoy proxy, a universal data plane for Cloud Native, has just graduated as the third top-level project in the CNCF. Craig and Adam talk to its author, Matt Klein from Lyft, about modern load balancing for microservices and pragmatically avoiding “second system” syndrome.

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• CVE-2018-1002105: proxy request handling in kube-apiserver can leave vulnerable TCP connections
  
  
  
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  • Proof of concept
  
  
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• Microsoft Connect();
  
  
  
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• DockerCon EU 2018:
  
  
  
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    • Available on GitHub
    
    
    
    
  
  
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• Hashicorp Vault 1.0


• Upbound introduce Crossplane
  
  
  
  • Available on GitHub
  
  
  • GitLab moving to GKE
  
  
  
  


• Rook 0.9.0 — available you-guessed-where


• MicroK8s from Canonical:
  
  
  
  • Announc4t
  
  
  • Project p2e
  
  
  • Available on G5b
  
  
  
  

Links from the interview

• Envoy
  
  
  
  • Recently graduated to top-level project at the CNCF
  
  
  • Built at Lyft
  
  
  • Replaces libraries like Finagle and Hystrix
  
  
  • Introduction to modern network load balancing and proxying
  
  
  
  


• Envoy contributors


• Istio, built on Envoy


• Turning down the VC money: Why Matt isn’t starting an Envoy company


• Service mesh data plane vs. control plane


• Matt Klein on Twitter


• Matt’s blog

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