Istio weekly newsletter
July 17th
Important dates (refer slides for other milestones)
Releases
- 1.7 release date : 11th Aug
- Feature freeze : 21st July
- Build cut: 21st July
Updates
-
Istio documentation ownership first pass completed by Frank
- To be reviewed in WG leads meeting on 21st July
- Istio.io website dashboard draft
Needs attention
- Update to community testing sheet : Cynthia
- Documentation test cases need review before our community testing days.
- Owner: @all WG leads
Docs reviewed & discussed
- RFC: change default branch to main
- Fix the parts of the EnvoyFilter API that need to be fixed
- Enable extensions ecosystem · Issue #24282 · istio/istio · GitHub
- Design long-term Telemetry APIs · Issue #24284 · istio/istio
- Extensions/Telemetry: Improve Operational Excellence · Issue #24333 · istio/istio
- Enable full telemetry V2 transition
- Make Istio more debuggable
- Improve UX of getting needed metadata in place for VMs · Issue #24350 · istio/istio
- Passthru/Blackhole telemetry canonicalization
- Need to add tool to detect and warn about Mixer usage · Issue #24471 · istio/istio
- Use kubernetes clients/informers consistently
- Merge engress and ingress helm charts
- Istiod-remote chart should not rely on global.yaml
- Gateway charts should not depend on global.yaml
- Istio.io website dashboard
- Automation indicator
- 1.7 plan for deprecated policy docs?
- Future of docs (esp. tasks) that demonstrate Istio addons that are being disconnected from the Istio distribution and moved to ops/integrations. Examples:
- Start cleaning up and closing old issues
Bookkeeping
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