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 differ...
