documentation using istio.io test framework #IstioCon Upgrade Working Group - User Experience ● Add pre-checks to identify and warn about known potential issues ○ Provide a clear path forward #IstioCon Upgrade all supported methods. #IstioCon Definition of Done Goal: To make Istio releases and feature quality consistent and predictable #IstioCon Definition of Done: Approach ● Automation where possible

Made Simple 8:05 Welcome Keynote 7:30 Ambient As Managed Infra 9:25 Roadmap Update 9:35 Pre-Sail Checks 10:10 Fine Grained RBAC + NGAC 9:25 Schedule Preview Istio Fault Tolerance 11:25 Ambient Q&A

Working Group ○ Promoting revision based upgrades ○ Support skip-level upgrades ○ Pre & Post Upgrade checks ○ Better testing mirroring production use cases ● Enhanced troubleshooting ● Aligning APIs with

spiffe:///ns//sa/ ■ Following assertions enforced through admission checks - ● Each namespace is globally unique across all clusters ● Each deployment is associated with

policies are specified by mesh administrators. Istiod propagates the policies to the proxies and checks whether the policy of each proxy is up to date. Authentication has two core features in Istio: 1

scheme could be implemented with ValidatingAdmissionWebhooks that introduce custom access control checks to prevent users from directly accessing sidecar proxy binding secrets, and validators that ensure