The Istio project is pleased to announce its intention to join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). With the support of the Istio Steering Committee, Google has submitted an application proposal for Istio to join the CNCF, the home of its companion projects Kubernetes and Envoy. It is almost 5 years since Google, IBM and Lyft launched Istio 0.1 in May 2017. That first version set the standard for what a service mesh should be: traffic management, policy enforcement, and observability...