JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ, GoLand, etc) have a nifty feature called Language Injection that lets you get full language features when a language is embedded within another. For example, a SQL query within a string within a Go file. A few of these come out of the box, but they are pretty limited -- I only had some XML ones prior to enabling the Databases plugin which added a few SQL ones. Fortunately, there is the ability to add custom ones. Unfortunately, this is expressed in a proprietary language with, as far as I can tell, zero documentation. ...

How Istio ambient mode greatly simplifies and improves egress gateway use cases.

How Gloo mesh brings HTTP observability to your mesh, without compromises.

An overview of options to deploy mTLS on Kubernetes

Core problems with the API make it a challenging to use in a secure, scalable manner.

Zero trust architectures should not treat nodes as highly privileged components.

Istio's installation has a long, winding, complex history, leading to an interesting current state. In this post, I hope to explain some of the historical context of how we arrived to the current state, and where I think the project is going. This is all my personal perspective and memory of things that happened years ago, so there is likely some divergence from reality. The Past When I first started working on Istio in 2019, Istio 1.0 had just been released. The ecosystem was a pretty difference place back then. ...

go run bash-script@latest

How we built a best-of-both-worlds experience with Istio ambient mode.

Installing Istio... hard could it be? A simple istioctl install is all you need... right?