Plane: Istio operator, side car injector, and other Istio control plane services • Istio Documentation: The documentation and secu- rity guides hosted on istio.io. NCC Group started the assessment with an expectations in the code were implemented when deployed. Each environment was deployed following Istio Documentation using istioc tl. The assessment included many open source compo- nents that were actively being users towards building secured environments. • Expand hardening documentation: While there were a variety of areas where documentation could improve, it may make sense to start with the harden- ing guidelines

Repository https://github.com/istio/api Language Golang Istio documentation Repository https://github.com/istio/istio.io Language n/a; documentation only 6 Istio Security Audit, 2023 Overall assessment that: ● The Istio Product Security Working Group responds swi�ly to security disclosures. ● The documentation on the projectʼs security is comprehensive, well-written and up to date. ● Security vulnerability security and reliability issues. This is already well known to the Istio maintainers, and the documentation also mentions this1: 1 https://istio.io/latest/docs/setup/install/operator/ 7 Istio Security

support skip-level revision-based upgrades ● Update or create documentation on upgrades across all supported methods ○ Test documentation using istio.io test framework #IstioCon Upgrade Working Group requirements for each maturity level: experimental, alpha, beta, and stable ● Ensuring appropriate documentation, testing, and code completion is done for each level ● Making sure that features continue to of release health ● Open issues and priorities ● Issues being promoted ● Features awaiting documentation ● Weekly performance ● Open release blockers #IstioCon Thanks also to the efforts of: ● Mitch

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Istio OSS? ● Problems unsolved ○ Multi-cluster and VM (lower onboarding cost) ○ Enterprise team structure gap (Workspace, Tenants, etc) ○ UI&UX Background ● Leads to complexity and lack of operational

of improved API tests • Istio benefits – Venky / Prasad – point here • Demo • Questions 2 Structure | CONFIDENTIAL 3 API-driven applications exploding Service Testing Component Testing E2E API

large service mesh: ● It exposes low-level Envoy configurations to operation ● It depends on the structure/name convention of the generated xDS by Pilot ● It depends on some cluster-specific information

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restricting the exposed resources to each proxy in the mesh. It is written in the official documentation, and actually, reference values are only disclosed for when namespace isolation is enabled.