istio-release 1.3.0

Release Highlights

• App developer can rely on the platform to provide client-side load balancing for app to app communication via container-to-container networking; requests will be evenly distributed across instances of applications mapped to the same internal route details
• App developer can rely on the platform to provide retries for app to app communication via container-to-container networking; the platform will retry requests three time if the response code is 5xx details
• Reliability and security improvement: Copilt consume VIPs from CAPI to reduce the misrouting details
• Bump istio to 1.2.0 in istio-release details
• Bump Envoy to 1.11.0 in istio-release details

No manifest changes

istio-release 1.2.0

Release Highlights

• app developers can rely on the platform to provide timeouts for app to app communication, timeout default is currently set to 15s and not modifiable details
• istio-release versioning now uses semver versions and not the whole number versions details
• performance improvement to allow operators to run many apps by temporarily disabling stats logging (reduces envoy RAM consumption) details
• we have now added a Contributing section to istio-release details
• fix issue with retries such that application developers can rely on the platform to provide retries for app to app communication details
• performance and security: only internal routes are published to sidecar envoys and external routes to the envoy gateway details
• Copilot uses new MCP details
• Changed pilot to use role~ip~id~dns.domain for the Envoy service node field details
• operator can set spec property for pilot_log_level details
• Bump istio to 1.1 in istio-release details
• developer can see traffic equally distributed when they map an internal route to three apps on the same port details
• operators can specify the DNS address of the MCP Client Pilot connects to details

Manifest changes

1.0.1	1.2.0	Default Value
did not exist	copilot dns_address_for_mcp	copilot.service.cf.internal
does not exist	copilot log_level	fatal