Istio OIDC Authentication This post has been updated for Istio version 1.11.4
A service mesh is an architectural pattern that provides common network services as a feature of the infrastructure. This typically includes features such as service discovery and policy enforcement to control how services within the mesh can communicate with each other.
Istio is a service mesh implementation that works by running an instance of Envoy alongside each instance of each of your services to intercept and proxy service traffic.
https://www.jetstack.io/blog/istio-oidc/

Hold on... What Even is CI/CD? https://www.jetstack.io/blog/what-is-cicd/

Stupid Simple WebAssembly In this blog post, we’ll introduce you to WebAssembly. We’ll start with a history lesson on the Assembly language, which was created to make programming easier and boost productivity. Then we’ll move on to WebAssemby, a descendent of Assembly, and cover what it is, the problems it solves and how it does that.
Assembly Decades ago, if you wanted to program a computer, you had to write binary code. We called it machine code because it is the native language of any computer (maybe this will change with the rise of quantum computing, but for now, every computer works on binary code).
https://rancher.com/blog/2021/....stupid-simple-webass

Getting started using cert-manager with the sig-network Gateway API The Ingress API is a good example of the API standardization that Kubernetes offers. Many cloud-native components, such as ExternalDNS, Traefik and cert-manager, integrate with the Ingress API, leading to a consistent experience.
Over time, the limitations of the Ingress API have led to the creation of various ad-hoc CRDs that aim at offering a better abstraction. Istio’s VirtualService CRD is one such example, and each proxy or service mesh creates its own.
https://www.jetstack.io/blog/c....ert-manager-gateway-

Hyperconverged Infrastructure and Harvester Virtual machines (VMs) have transformed infrastructure deployment and management. VMs are so ubiquitous that I can’t think of a single instance where I deployed production code to a bare metal server in my many years as a professional software engineer.
VMs provide secure, isolated environments hosting your choice of operating system while sharing the resources of the underlying server. This allows resources to be allocated more efficiently, reducing the cost of over-provisioned hardware.
https://rancher.com/blog/2021/....hyperconverged-infra