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Istio: case studies over time

14 case studies across 10 events, oldest first. Generated by wiki find "istio"; each moment links to where the talk discusses it.

Organizations: Airbnb, Careem, ControlPlane, Decathlon, Fred..., Google, HP, IBM, New York Times, The Weather Company, Verizon, Yahoo

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2018 (Shanghai)

Experiences From Running Istio in a K8s Production Environment - Line Moseng & Johnny Horvi

Speakers share their experiences running Istio in a Kubernetes production environment.

Istio in Production: Real Customers, Real Solutions - Craig Box, Google — Google

How HP Uses Istio to Manage Network Traffic - Xi He & Zhoujian Zhang, HP — HP

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 (Copenhagen)

Istio - The Weather Company's Journey - Nick Nellis & Fabio Oliveira, IBM (Any Skill Level) — The Weather Company, IBM

The Weather Company (IBM) shares its journey adopting Istio service mesh in production.

From Kubelet to Istio: Kubernetes Network Security Demystified - Andrew Martin, ControlPlane — ControlPlane

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2019 (Shanghai)

Lightning Talk: How We Use Istio and OPA for Authorization - Lin Tao, HP — HP

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 (Barcelona)

Istio on Knative Lessons Learned: How Istio is Fit for Serverless Platform - Ying Chun Guo

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 (San Diego)

Running Istio and Kubernetes On-prem at Yahoo Scale - Suresh Visvanathan & Mrunmayi Dhume, Verizon — Yahoo, Verizon

From Brownfield to Greenfield: Istio Service Mesh Journey at Fred... Shriram Rajagopalan & Lixun Qi — Fred...

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021

Building a Multi Cluster/Env Service Mesh at Airbnb - Weibo He & Stephen Chan, Airbnb — Airbnb

Airbnb describes how it built its multi-cluster, multi-environment service mesh.

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023

Multi-Cluster Observability with Service Mesh - That Is a Lot of Moving Parts!? - Ryota Sawada

The speaker shares their experience operating multi-cluster observability across a service mesh and the complexity involved.

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024

Assessing Service Mesh's Net Worth: A Pragmatic Onboarding - Adrien Gillard, Decathlon — Decathlon

Decathlon assesses the value of a service mesh and describes its pragmatic onboarding approach.

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 - London

Journey at the New York Times: Is Sidecar-Less Service Mesh Disappearing I... Lin Sun & Ahmed Bebars — New York Times

The New York Times shares its service mesh journey and evaluates whether sidecar-less mesh is replacing sidecars.

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025

GAMMA in Action: How Careem Migrated To Istio Without Downtime - Suren Raju & Sergey Marunich — Careem