
Istio 1.0: Production Service Mesh Arrives
Istio 1.0 graduates the service mesh to production readiness with stable APIs, security hardening, and Kubernetes-native operations.

Istio 1.0 graduates the service mesh to production readiness with stable APIs, security hardening, and Kubernetes-native operations.

Prometheus 2.3 introduces subquery support, experimental remote read improvements, and smarter staleness handling—leveling up Kubernetes observability.

Prometheus 2.0 introduces a revamped TSDB, WAL-based scrapes and remote-write improvements—boosting performance and reliability for Kubernetes observability stacks.

With Jaeger’s admission to the CNCF Sandbox, Kubernetes teams gained a vendor-neutral distributed tracing system compatible with OpenTracing and Envoy.

Envoy 1.0 graduates with stable APIs, first-class Kubernetes integrations, and a thriving ecosystem of control planes like Istio, Lyft’s management server, and Ambassador.

Istio 0.1 debuts a full-featured service mesh built on Envoy, Pilot, Mixer and Citadel—bringing traffic management, observability and policy to Kubernetes.

Linkerd 1.0 establishes the first production-ready service mesh for Kubernetes, introducing transparent service-to-service communication, observability, and reliability features.

Prometheus 1.0: Reliable Monitoring for Cloud-Native Systems