Roadmap

Istio 0.3

Istio 0.3 is our third release, focused on performance, stability, and reliability, as well as a great developer experience. We expect to encourage production usage of Istio 0.3, which will include the following:

• Extensive integration and load testing of common user scenarios.
• Improved support for debugging and tracing of common issues.
• Basic HA configurations and instructions for scaling Istio.
• Baseline performance numbers and targets for each component.
• Support for incremental adoption of Istio into Kubernetes clusters.
• Support for incremental adoption of mutual TLS throughout an Istio Mesh.
• Basic Authorization using RBAC.
• Improved support for VMs joining an Istio Mesh.
• Improved support for non-Kubernetes use cases.
• Support for backwards compatibility and Istio Upgrades.

Istio 0.4

Our fourth release, 0.4, will include support for merging multiple Istio installations into a single Istio Mesh, as well as additional features based on community feedback. Here are some examples of features we could work on:

• Support for additional logging, monitoring, tracing, rate limiting etc. adapters.
• Configuration rollout and management.
• Support for multiple clusters in a single mesh.
• Client-oriented telemetry collection and distribution.
• Global load balancing with autoscaling.
• Support for the Open Service Broker APIs.
• Pluggable identity provisioning system to support custom CA (Vault) and custom-defined identity.
• API Management functionality.

Please get in touch if there are features you’d like to see in our future releases!