solo.io / Idit Levine - Solo.io CEO and Founder

Idit Levine, CEO of Solo.io shares her perspective on the Service Mesh landscape, use cases, open source foundations, and other topics in this interview with Kit Merker.

00:00 Welcome Idit Levine
00:22 What is Solo.io and how does it relate to Istio?
01:59 Explain the use cases of service mesh
06:04 Landscape of service mesh projects and tradeoffs
09:40 Will there be one service mesh? Or are we looking at multi-mesh world?
12:43 Envoy-based solution is preferable
14:36 Easy vs. Industrial Grade? Example of progress?
18:50 Thoughts on Google Open Usage Commons?
22:25 What about the conferences and marketing?
25:13 Future of reliability impact from service mesh
26:40 Thank you and goodbye!

Designing, building and operating applications for cloud-native infrastructure that are resilient, scalable, secure, and meet compliance and IT objectives gets complicated. A reality for the organizations with which we work is the fact they need to run across a hybrid deployment footprint, not just Kubernetes. Service mesh helps solve these challenges but still require customization at the organization or per cluster level.

As a highly extensible data plane for service mesh, Envoy Proxy is the cloud-native application networking technology. In this webinar, we will explore different service mesh deployment patterns, multi-cluster topologies and operations, and extensibility with WebAssembly for scalable, highly available, and resilient application environments.

Join us for a practical session that covers:
* Multi-cluster design patterns with Kubernetes and Service Mesh
* Service discovery, identity federation and more in a multi-cluster world
* How WebAssembly simplifies Envoy based service mesh customization
* Live demos and Q&A

Speakers:
Idit Levine, Founder and CEO @Solo.io
Christian Posta, Global Field CTO @Solo.io

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Ask Me Anything About Service Mesh

Speakers: Christian Posta, Louis Ryan, William Morgan, Lin Sun, Idit Levine, Zack Butcher
As part of the cloud native journey, users are leveraging service mesh to solve the rising challenges of microservices in a consistent manner such as how to observe microservices, how to handle network failures, how to control traffic and how to secure microservices etc. without redeploying their services. Join us for a live interactive session where our panel of experts from ServiceMeshCon program review committee will address your most challenging inquiries around service mesh!

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Solo.io Sponsored Session - Idit Levine, Solo.io

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Solo.io is a software company that helps organizations adopt and operate innovative cloud native technologies like microservices, serverless and service mesh. They have open source and commercial technology like Gloo, a modern Envoy Proxy based API Gateway, Squash for debugging microservices, GlooShot for chaos engineering and Service Mesh Hub for installing, discovery and operation of any service mesh.

Solo.io wants to help other people use coud-native and distributed systems in their organizations without having to worry about lock-in or be forced to only use one vendor. They provide organizations with tools that are agnostic to application type, language, infrastructure, service mesh, because the reality is that many companies have very diverse IT portfolios and it will only grow as they add new technologies to their existing environment.

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Idit Levine, Co-Founder & CEO at solo.io, speaks on the DevOps track at the GeekWire Cloud Summit 2019.

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Chaos Debugging: Finding and Fixing Microservice Weak Points - Idit Levine & Mitch Kelley, Solo.io

Distributed microservices introduce new challenges: failure modes are harder to anticipate and resolve. In this session, we present a “Chaos Debugging” framework enabled by three open source projects: Gloo Shot, Squash, and Loop to help you increase your microservices’ “immunity” to issues. Gloo Shot integrates with any service mesh to implement advanced, realistic chaos experiments. Squash connects powerful and mature debuggers (gdb, dlv, java debugging) to your microservices while they run in Kubernetes. Loop extends the capability of your service mesh to observe your application and record full transactions for sandboxed replay and debugging. Come to this demo-heavy talk to see how together, Squash, Gloo Shot, and Loop allow you to trigger, replay, and investigate failure modes of your microservices in a language agnostic and efficient manner without requiring any changes to your code.

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Idit Levine is the founder and CEO of solo.io, a Boston-based company that develops tools to help the enterprise adopt and make the most of innovative cloud technologies. Idit is an enthusiastic active member of the open-source community. Among the open-source projects coming from solo are Gloo, the function gateway, which melds monolithic, microservices, and serverless apps; Squash, a platform for debugging microservices applications; and UniK, an orchestration tool for microVMs and unikernels. Recently Idit shared with the community her vision of the multi-mesh, an architecture pattern in which users will use multiple and different service meshes on the multi-cloud. To make this vision a reality, Solo announced SuperGloo, an open-source service mesh orchestration platform.
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Idit Levine, founder & CEO of solo.io, talks with Lisa Martin at the 7th Annual CloudNOW Awards from Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, CA.

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Data with a dose of teamwork helped this tech entrepreneur break glass ceilings

No matter who you are, data talks — especially for women trying to break down barriers in the world of technology.

Idit Levine (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of solo.io Inc., was recently awarded one of the Top Women Entrepreneurs in Cloud by CloudNOW, a nonprofit consortium of women in cloud computing.

“My motto is really simple: Just be the best,” Levine said. “People will … try to explain why you’re not doing a good job and try to explain why they’re doing a better job, but at the end of the day … data is the most important thing.”

Levine spoke with Lisa Martin (@LisaMartinTV), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the CloudNOW “Top Women in Cloud” Innovation Awards event in Menlo Park, California. They discussed the origins of solo.io, struggles to gain funding, and the challenges and lessons learned on the road to success.

Pioneering spirit with a dose of teamwork
Levine has worked in many startups that were acquired by top-name companies, such as VMware Inc., as well as working at Dell EMC for a few years. Her experiences finally helped her recognize a need in the market that she thought she could meet through her own company, solo.io, which aims to meld heterogeneous environments with multiple layers of architecture and cloud into a hybrid application. So she set out as a pioneer to become one of the few women in technology who are founders and CEOs of their own businesses.

Despite Levine’s depth of experience in her field, finding funding for her own company would not be easy. Although many insisted she needed a partner, Levine fought hard to maintain the leadership of her company, and this is where her name for the company came from.

“Part of the reason that I call the company ‘solo’ is … to explain that I can do it,” she said. “We can do it. Even though I’m a woman … I can do these things by myself.”

Levine went on to find funding and has been rapidly growing her company ever since. And while she has relied on her own strength and courage to help her, she also credits her company’s success to the great team she has developed around her — because, at the end of the day, data is still everything.

“I’m in charge. I’m the CEO. But I did want strong, strong people next to me,” Levine said. “We should be the best. And in order to be the best, you need to have the best people.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the CloudNOW “Top Women in Cloud” Innovation Awards event:

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Gloo is a function gateway built on top of the popular open source project Envoy. The goal of Gloo is to decouple client-facing APIs from upstream APIs. Gloo is similar to an API gateway, which is a tool that software companies can use to collect all their APIs and one place and impose security, monitoring, and other standards around those APIs.

The goal of Gloo is to provide all the tools necessary to glue together traditional and cloud-native applications. Idit Levine is the CEO of Solo.io, a company that is building Gloo and several other projects.

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Debugging Cloud Foundry Apps: Via Service Mesh, Open Tracing - Idit Levine, Solo.io

The mainstreaming of containerization and microservices is raising a critical question by both developers and operators: how do we debug all this?

Debugging microservices applications is a difficult task. The state of the application is spread across multiple microservices, and it is hard to get a holistic view of the state of the application. Currently debugging of microservices is assisted by openTracing, which helps in tracing of a transaction or workflow for post-mortem analysis, and linkerd and itsio which monitor the network to identify latency problems. These tools however, do not allow to monitor and interfere with the application during run time.

In this talk, we will describe and demonstrate common debugging techniques and we will introduce Squash, a new tool and methodology.

About Idit Levine
Idit Levine is the founder and CEO of solo.io, where she is aiming to streamline the cloud stack.
Prior to founding solo.io, Idit was the CTO of the cloud management division at EMC and a member of its global CTO Office.

At EMC, Idit lead, designed and implemented project UniK, an open source platform for automating unikernels compilation and deployment and project layer-x, an open source framework for cross-cluster scheduling . At solo, Idit recently released Squash, an open source platform for debugging microservices applications.

Idit Levine (@idit_levine) CEO at Solo.io joins CUBE host Stu Miniman (@stu) at Cloud Foundry Summit 2018 at the Boston Convention And Exhibition Center in Boston MA

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Solo.io intros API management tools for the open-source Istio service mesh

Cloud-native software company Solo.io Inc. today is making available what it says is the industry’s first Istio Developer Portal, which aims to streamline the onboarding process for developers in order to improve experiences and productivity.

Solo sells software that helps companies address the challenges of implementing microservices, which are the components of modern, containerized applications that can run in multiple computing environments. It offers a variety of tools that help with this, including its Service Mesh Hub, which helps organizations streamline the deployment, management and extensibility of any service mesh on any cloud, for any application.

Service meshes, of which the open-source Istio is one of the most widely used, are becoming increasingly prominent in modern information technology architectures. Essentially, they’re a dedicated infrastructure layer that’s used to control service-to-service communication over a network. They provide a way for separate parts of an application to communicate with each other.

As companies modernize their information technology around microservices, service meshes and application programming interfaces are gaining importance. But until today, they’ve had no way to effectively catalog their APIs, which makes it difficult for developers to use them in their application development process in a secure manner.

Solo’s Istio Developer Portal gives companies a way to catalog, manage and securely publish APIs within a custom, branded portal that can help to accelerate onboarding of developers, both inside and outside of their organizations. The new service also boosts security for Istio by integrating with authentication systems, Single Sign-On services and API Keys capabilities.

With the Istio Developer Portal, developers can take advantage of new management tools that enable them to curate, document, expose and secure APIs running in Istio to other users within their organization, and also third parties. The service also provides a clean and intuitive user interface that makes it easier for developers to search for, browse through and test the APIs they’re authorized to use.

Solo’s co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Idit Levine (pictured) said the Istio Developer Portal would make it easier and safer for companies looking to use Istio in their own IT environments. “With this release, we continue on our mission to help organizations on their cloud-native journey to modernize their critical applications,” Levine said.

Levine appeared on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the 2018 Cloud Foundry Summit, where she talked more about how the company is working to make service meshes such as Istio easier to work with:

Keynote Panel: Open Source Investments - Jocelyn Goldfein, Zetta Venture Partners; Jake Flomenberg, Accel; Erica Brescia, Bitnami; Gary Little, Canvas Ventures; Sirish Raghuram, Platform9; Idit Levine, solo.io; Rashmi Gopinath, Microsoft Ventures 

About Erica Brescia
Erica Brescia is the co-founder and COO of Bitnami. With over 1 million deployments per month, Bitnami provides the largest source of applications and development environments to the world’s leading cloud service providers, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Platform. In 2016, Erica was the recipient of the Top Women in Cloud award. In her free time, Erica serves on the board of directors of the Linux Foundation, and as an investment partner in X Factor Ventures, which empowers female- led business to succeed.

About Jake Flomenberg
Jake Flomenberg joined Accel in 2012 and focuses on next-generation infrastructure, enterprise software, and security investments.

About Jocelyn Goldfein
Jocelyn Goldfein is a widely recognized industry expert on product strategy, infrastructure and organizational scale. Her career as an engineering leader spans from early stage startups to high-growth years at Facebook and VMware.

About Rashmi Gopinath
Rashmi leads enterprise software investments for Microsoft Ventures in the Bay Area. She brings a combination of strong venture capital and startup operating experience. Previously, Rashmi was an Investment Director at Intel Capital focused on investing in cloud, infrastructure, and big data companies. She also led global business development for high-growth startups Couchbase and BlueData. Prior to that, she held business development and product development positions at GE and Oracle. Rashmi has an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Mumbai in India.

About Idit Levine
Idit Levine is the founder and CEO of solo.io, where she is aiming to streamline the cloud stack.
Prior to founding solo.io, Idit was the CTO of the cloud management division at EMC and a member of its global CTO Office.

About Gary Little
Gary Little is a founding managing member of Canvas Ventures and has been a partner of Morgenthaler Ventures for 20 years. He focuses on enterprise infrastructure and application investments. Gary has twice been named to Forbes Midas List.

About Sirish Raghuram
Sirish is co-founder and chief executive officer at Platform9. Having experienced virtualization, IaaS and cloud-native industry transitions first hand, Sirish believes that open-source represents the future of enterprise hybrid clouds.

Squash: A Debugger for Kubernetes Apps - Idit Levine, solo.io

Squash is a tool for debugging distributed applications.

Most cloud native applications written today follow the microservice architecture. These applications are distributed by nature, and therefore hard to debug.

Microservice engineers debug their applications by printing values of select variables into log files. This leaves them with the daunting task of sorting through reams of log data, which at best provide a partial view of the state of application. This approach is cumbersome, time consuming and works better with "easy" bugs.

Many advanced tools to debug monolitic applications exist in the market, and provide users with powerful ways to dissect their programs and to interact with them on the fly. However, these tools cannot be used directly for debugging applications that follow the microservice architecture pattern.

Squash is designed to bring the strength of modern debuggers and the convenience of their IDEs to microservices developers. Squash uses popular, powerful and mature debuggers (gdb, dlv, java debugging) and integrates them seamlessly with Kubernetes. This allows devs to use the debugger of their choice, and the IDEs that support it, to develop microservices on any platform.

About Idit Levine
Founder, solo.io
Idit Levine is a leader and innovator in the Cloud open source community, and the founder of solo.io. Until recently, Idit was CTO for cloud management division at EMC and a member of its global CTO office, where she had focused on Management and Orchestration (M&O) over the entire stack and on microservices, cloud native apps, cluster management and Platform as a Service.

Idit’s fascination with the cloud sprouted when she joined DynamicOps (vRealize, now part of VMware) as one of its first employees. She subsequently took part in developing the new-generation public cloud of Verizon Terremark, and served as an acting CTO at Intigua, a startup company that focuses on container and management technology.
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