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The New Stack PodcastFrom Cloud Native to AI Native: Where Are We Going?At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025 in Atlanta, the panel of experts - Kate Goldenring of Fermyon Technologies, Idit Levine of Solo.io, Shaun O'Meara of Mirantis, Sean O'Dell of Dynatrace and James Harmison of Red Hat - explored whether the cloud native era has evolved into an AI native era — and what that shift means for infrastructure, security and development practices. Jonathan Bryce of the CNCF argued that true AI-native systems depend on robust inference layers, which have been overshadowed by the hype around chatbots and agents. As organizations push AI to the edge and demand faster, more personalized experiences, Fermyon’s Ka...
2025-11-2844 min
What the Dev?321: Bridging the gap between AI tools and Kubernetes with kagent (with solo.io's Idit Levine)In this episode originally published on Get With IT, Dave interviews Idit Levine, founder and CEO of solo.io, about kagent, a framework for running agents in Kubernetes. They discuss:Why kagent was createdWhat led solo.io to open source the project and donate it to the CNCFDifficulties with deploying AI agents in large organizations
2025-08-1214 min
Get With IT95: Bridging the gap between AI tools and Kubernetes with kagent (with solo.io's Idit Levine)In this episode, Dave interviews Idit Levine, founder and CEO of solo.io, about kagent, a framework for running agents in Kubernetes. They discuss:Why kagent was createdWhat led solo.io to open source the project and donate it to the CNCFDifficulties with deploying AI agents in large organizations
2025-07-1714 min
Heavybit PodcastsEp. #44, Service Mesh Evolution with Idit Levine of SoloIn episode 44 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell and Benjie De Groot sit down with Idit Levine, Founder and CEO of Solo.io, to explore the evolving world of service mesh technology. Idit shares her unconventional journey into tech, the founding of Solo, and innovations like Ambient Mesh that simplify Kubernetes networking. Dive into the challenges of microservices, open source collaboration, and the future of AI in networking.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2024-11-271h 05
The Kubelist PodcastEp. #44, Service Mesh Evolution with Idit Levine of SoloIn episode 44 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell and Benjie De Groot sit down with Idit Levine, Founder and CEO of Solo.io, to explore the evolving world of service mesh technology. Idit shares her unconventional journey into tech, the founding of Solo, and innovations like Ambient Mesh that simplify Kubernetes networking. Dive into the challenges of microservices, open source collaboration, and the future of AI in networking.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2024-11-271h 05
Security Weekly Podcast Network (Video)Making Service Meshes Work for People - Idit Levine - ASW #267Service meshes create the opportunity to make security a team sport. They can improve observability and service identity. Turning monoliths into micro services sounds appealing, but maybe not every monolith needs to be broken up. We'll also talk about the maturity and design choices that go into service meshes and when a monolith should just remain a monolith. Segment Resources: https://www.solo.io/blog/kubernetes-security-cloud-native-applications/ https://www.solo.io/blog/apis-data-breach-zero-trust/ https://www.solo.io/blog/api-gateways-productivity-resilience-security-cloud-applications/ Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-267
2023-12-1937 min
Application Security Weekly (Video)Making Service Meshes Work for People - Idit Levine - ASW #267Service meshes create the opportunity to make security a team sport. They can improve observability and service identity. Turning monoliths into micro services sounds appealing, but maybe not every monolith needs to be broken up. We'll also talk about the maturity and design choices that go into service meshes and when a monolith should just remain a monolith. Segment Resources: https://www.solo.io/blog/kubernetes-security-cloud-native-applications/ https://www.solo.io/blog/apis-data-breach-zero-trust/ https://www.solo.io/blog/api-gateways-productivity-resilience-security-cloud-applications/ Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-267
2023-12-1937 min
Application Security Weekly (Audio)Making Service Meshes Work for People - Idit Levine - ASW #267Service meshes create the opportunity to make security a team sport. They can improve observability and service identity. Turning monoliths into micro services sounds appealing, but maybe not every monolith needs to be broken up. We'll also talk about the maturity and design choices that go into service meshes and when a monolith should just remain a monolith. Segment Resources: https://www.solo.io/blog/kubernetes-security-cloud-native-applications/ https://www.solo.io/blog/apis-data-breach-zero-trust/ https://www.solo.io/blog/api-gateways-productivity-resilience-security-cloud-applications/ In the news, Nagios gets a review from NCC Group, hackers hack some anti-fixing code to fix...
2023-12-191h 17
Security Weekly Podcast Network (Audio)Making Service Meshes Work for People - Idit Levine - ASW #267Service meshes create the opportunity to make security a team sport. They can improve observability and service identity. Turning monoliths into micro services sounds appealing, but maybe not every monolith needs to be broken up. We'll also talk about the maturity and design choices that go into service meshes and when a monolith should just remain a monolith. Segment Resources: https://www.solo.io/blog/kubernetes-security-cloud-native-applications/ https://www.solo.io/blog/apis-data-breach-zero-trust/ https://www.solo.io/blog/api-gateways-productivity-resilience-security-cloud-applications/ In the news, Nagios gets a review from NCC Group, hackers hack some anti-fixing code to fix...
2023-12-191h 17
Cloud ControlEp. 10: From the Court to the Cloud: How Solo.io Became a Billion Dollar Unicorn with Idit LevineOn this episode, Shon goes in-depth with Idit Levine, founder and CEO of solo.io, an application networking unicorn valued at over $1 billion. They explore Idit's journey from professional basketball in Israel to leading solo's meteoric rise at the bleeding edge of cloud native infrastructure.
Hear Idit's unique insights on empowering engineering teams, the realities of open source, and persisting through hurdles as a female tech founder. Learn how solo is reinventing networking to unleash the power of microservices, while partnering closely with customers to drive production success.
This wide-ranging conversation offers rare wisdom on everything from startup culture wars...
2023-12-0859 min
Cloud ControlEp. 10: From the Court to the Cloud: How Solo.io Became a Billion Dollar Unicorn with Idit LevineOn this episode, Shon goes in-depth with Idit Levine, founder and CEO of solo.io, an application networking unicorn valued at over $1 billion. They explore Idit's journey from professional basketball in Israel to leading solo's meteoric rise at the bleeding edge of cloud native infrastructure.Hear Idit's unique insights on empowering engineering teams, the realities of open source, and persisting through hurdles as a female tech founder. Learn how solo is reinventing networking to unleash the power of microservices, while partnering closely with customers to drive production success.This...
2023-12-0859 min
Open Source UnderdogsEpisode 64: API Service Mesh with Idit Levine, CEO and Founder of Solo.ioIntro
Mike: Hello and welcome to Open Source Underdogs! I’m your host Mike Schwartz, and this is episode 64 with Idit Levine, Founder and CEO of Solo.io, an API Gateway and Service Mesh company with a product called Gloo – not to be confused with Gluu – the company that I lead, who sponsors this podcast.I’ve been trying to get Idit on the podcast for many years ever since I spoke with her at an Open Source Conference in 2019, and finally, her PR agent reached out to me a few months back, and, of course, I...
2023-11-0722 min
Startup Field Guide by Unusual Ventures: The Product Market Fit PodcastSolo’s product-market fit journey: Idit Levine on timing the market for open source successSolo is an open-source developer platform designed to connect applications with service meshes across any software infrastructure. Their core promise to their customer is to help them migrate from 10/20 year old legacy monolithic applications to new cloud native architectures with APIs and microservices.
Last valued at $1Bn, Solo has hundreds of enterprise customers including enterprises like TMobile, American Express, SAP, Sumo Logic, and more.
In this episode, Sandhya Hegde chats with Idit Levine, the founder and CEO of Solo.
Join us as we discuss:
1:13 Solo’s origin story
6:04 Early fund...
2023-10-3045 min
Kubernetes Podcast from GoogleWhat's new in Istio, with John Howard and Keith Mattix This week we explore what's new in Istio with core maintainers John Howard and Keith Mattix Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod News of the week Announcing Linkerd 2.14: Improved enterprise multi-cluster, Gateway API conformance, and more! Amazon to invest up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic KubeCon EU 2024 CFP is open until November 26th CNCF Security Slam ...
2023-10-0750 min
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and ToolingIstio Ambient Mesh and Solo.ioBret and Nirmal welcome Idit Levine, Founder/CEO Solo.io. Idit focuses on Service Mesh, API-GW and Multi-Cloud networking, and security.🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign up for some content updates, discounts, and more as I finish building the course. https://learn.bretfisher.com/waitlist🍾Idit has been involved in the Containers/DevOps community for 10+ years, building products from Docker...
2023-08-251h 04
Software Engineering DailyIstio Ambient Mesh with Brian GracelyLet's say you have a set of microservices running on a Kubernetes cluster. In the past, developers used to program features like service discovery, observability, who's allowed to talk to whom and other security related features directly into the application code.This slowed down the dev cycle and it made these microservices bigger and just generally made everything less flexible.The service mesh is a tool responsible for handling service-to-service communication. You keep your application small and business focused and instead you dynamically program the intelligence into the network.The Istio ambient mesh...
2023-02-0245 min
The New Stack PodcastHow Idit Levine’s Athletic Past Fueled Solo.io‘s StartupIdit Levine’s tech journey originated in an unexpected place: a basketball court. As a seventh grader in Israel, playing in hoops tournaments definitely sparked her competitive side. “I was basically going to compete with all my international friends for two minutes without parents, without anything,” Levine said. “I think it made me who I am today. It’s really giving you a lot of confidence to teach you how to handle situations … stay calm and still focus.” Developing that calm and focus proved an asset during Levine’s subsequent career in professional bas...
2022-09-1634 min
Engineering Culture by InfoQGreat Engineers are Always Learning – Lessons from a Unicorn FounderIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Idit Levine, founder of Solo.io, who is on the shortlist of women-founded Unicorn status startups in the world.
Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3cwK3k6
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2022-09-0229 min
The Python Podcast.__init__Cloud Native Networking For Developers With The Gloo PlatformSummary
Communication is a fundamental requirement for any program or application. As the friction involved in deploying code has gone down, the motivation for architecting your system as microservices goes up. This shifts the communication patterns in your software from function calls to network calls. In this episode Idit Levine explains how the Gloo platform that she and her team at Solo have created makes it easier for you to configure and monitor the network topologies for your microservice environments. She also discusses what developers need to know about networking in cloud native environments and how a...
2022-04-1950 min
MaintainableIdit Levine - Production is the Real TestRobby speaks with the Founder and CEO of Solo.io, Idit Levine about scenarios where rewrites are appropriate so that you can pivot your technology startup, why cleaning up technical debt early-and-often is vital, and fostering collaboration within your open source community.Additionally, Idit introduces us to tools such as Istio for managing your Service Mesh.Helpful LinksIdit's TwitterIdit's LinkedInSolo.io and on twitterIdit's GithubIdit's Book Recommendation: The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No...
2022-03-2142 min
IT VisionariesThe Power of Passion to Develop Technology with Idit Levine, Founder and CEO, Solo.ioCertain types of technology are easier to understand for some people than for others, and that’s okay. Passion is contagious; iIt attracts employees and customers. Strong, passionate leadership with clear vision increases employee satisfaction that then translates to satisfied customers. Developers who make products that build and maintain infrastructure toil to solve problems so their customers can pursue their own desires. Idit Levine, the Founder and CEO of Solo.io, shares her zeal for her company’s work as well as a belief in her team’s competitive nature.Main TakeawaysThe Power of Passion: Passio...
2021-10-1240 min
Tech LoungeModern Application Connectivity with Idit Levine of Solo.ioI have Idit Levine back on the show to discuss how solo.io use Istio and Envoy Proxy to provide API Infrastructure from the Edge to Service Mesh.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com
For show notes and an interactive transcript, visit chrischinchilla.com/podcast/To reach out and say hello, visit chrischinchilla...
2021-06-2327 min
The Business of Open SourceSolving Application Networking Challenges with with Idit LevineThis conversation covers:Idit’s role at Solo.io, and what she typically does on a daily basis. Idit also talks about how her job duties have changed over the last two years, and the impact that COVID-19 had on the company.The common business reasons why customers come to Solo.io — and where they typically are in terms of cloud-native maturity. Some things that Idit has learned about customers over the last two years. In addition, Idit talks about her own journey at Solo.io and what she’s had to learn along the way.How Idit’s custome...
2020-12-0226 min
Kubernetes Podcast from GoogleKubeCon NA 2020, with Stephen AugustusJoin us for all the news from KubeCon NA 2020, and a conversation with conference co-chair Stephen Augustus. Stephen is a Senior Open Source Engineer on the VMware Tanzu team, a chair of Kubernetes' SIG Release, and a leader in many other parts of the project, past and present. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week The kākāpō wins Bird of the Year We're off for 2 weeks. See you on December 8! News of the week Cisco acquires Ban...
2020-11-1853 min
Kubernetes Podcast from GoogleKubecost, with Webb BrownWhen your infrastructure is effectively infinite, you may have to keep an eye on your credit card. Webb Brown started a project that does exactly that - Kubecost, which aims to reduce spend and prevent resource-based outages. He talks to Craig and Adam about the project and the company behind it. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Kiwis abroad: please meddle in the election Clarke Gayford tweet Killer Queen Black Killer Queen News of the week VMworld...
2020-10-0635 min
Kubernetes Podcast from GoogleTiKV, TiDB and PingCAP, with Ed HuangEd Huang is co-founder and CTO of PingCAP, creators of the TiDB distributed database and the TiKV key value store. Ed worked on clustering Redis while at Wandou Labs, creating and open-sourcing a tool called Codis. Deciding to focus on this space, he created TiDB and then TiKV, and founded PingCAP. He shares the story behind the projects, bridging the gap between China and the West with open source, and his Desert Island Disc. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter...
2020-09-1538 min
Semaphore UncutIdit Levine on Building a Virtual Service MeshIn a new episode of Semaphore Uncut, Solo.io founder and CEO Idit Levine (@Idit_Levine) shares insights on what’s next in service mesh solutions. We dig into the importance of network for distributed systems, the evolution of API gateways, the cutting edge of service mesh infrastructure, and more. Idit was very kind to share many details from her journey in discovering and developing Solo's products.Key takeaways:When everything is distributed, everything has to go on the network wire.Gloo is a feature-rich, Kubernetes-native ingress controller, and next-generation API gateway.Service Mesh Hu...
2020-07-2827 min
Kubernetes Podcast from GoogleMirantis, with Adrian IonelOver the past 20 years, Mirantis has grown from an outsourcing company for semiconductor engineers to a product company that is the new home of Docker Enterprise. Past and present CEO and "co-founder" Adrian Ionel oversaw Mirantis's adoption of OpenStack and purchase of Docker's enterprise business, and he joins the show to discuss them both. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Hello Kitty, not a cat The Toys That Made Us Istanbul Not Constantinople News of the week...
2020-07-0141 min
The InfoQ PodcastIdit Levine Discussing Gloo, Service Mesh Interface, and Web Assembly HubToday on The InfoQ Podcast, Wes Reisz speaks with CEO and founder of Solo Idit Levine. The two discuss the Three Pillars of Solo around Gloo, their API gateway, interoperability of service meshes (including the work on Service Mesh Interface), and on extending Envoy with Web Assembly (and the recently announced Web Assembly Hub).
Why listen to this podcast:
- Gloo is a Kubernetes-native ingress controller and API gateway. It’s built on top of Envoy and at its core is open source.
- The Service Mesh Interface (SMI) is a specification for service meshes that runs on Kubernetes. It de...
2020-01-2438 min
Cloud UnfilteredEp95: All about Service Mesh, with Idit LevineHow's your service mesh game? Do you feel like it's strong? Like you know what you need to in order to leverage it effectively within your company's IT environment? Whether it is or not, this is the episode to listen to if you want to learn more about service mesh.In it we talk to Idit Levine, founder and CEO of solo.io about some of the central benefits of employing a service mesh, some of the challenges you'll run into, solutions to those challenges, and her thoughts on where service mesh and Envoy are headed...
2020-01-0824 min
Kubernetes Podcast from GoogleMonitoring, Metrics and M3, with Martin Mao and Rob SkillingtonMartin Mao and Rob Skillington are co-founders of Chronosphere; CEO and CTO respectively. They both worked on the monitoring team at Uber, where they created M3: a metrics platform with an open source time-series database built for scale. They join Craig and Adam to talk about monitoring, metrics and M3 on the last episode of 2019. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Test message from Delta Airlines News of the week CSI migration and CSI volume snapshots AKS...
2019-12-1735 min
Innovate @OpenA discussion with Idit Levine, founder of solo.io, at KubeconIn this podcast, we covered API management and service meshes for microservices--and why microservices can be challenging. We also got into the business side to talk business models around open source and the creation of communities.
2019-12-1609 min
Tech LoungeKubeCon - Solo.io, Digital Ocean and AtlassianIn part 2 of interviews from KubeCon, I speak with the following people about developments in the world of Kubernetes: Idit Levine of Solo.io 24:48 - Shiv Ramji of Digital Ocean 50:05 - Matthew Whittington of Atlassianhttps://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com
For show notes and an interactive...
2019-06-141h 13
Kubernetes Podcast from GoogleSolo.io, with Idit LevineSolo.io was founded in 2017 by this week's guest, Idit Levine. She talks to Craig and Adam about API gateways, service meshes, and lots of project names with two O's in them. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Casa Battlo Picasso Museum Dali Museum and Theatre in Figueres MoPOP in Seattle The "Beaker Sane" t-shirt A bottle of Sortilege whisky Gifted to us by Francois LeMessier Shared with the community at KubeCon News of...
2019-05-2835 min
The Women in Tech Show: A Technical PodcastCloud Infrastructure Software (Idit Levine)Migrating legacy applications to modern technologies in the cloud computing space can be done in different stages. Idit Levine, Founder and CEO of Solo described how legacy applications can leverage a Hybrid Architecture when migrating to the cloud. We talked about migrating a monolithic application to other architectures like microservices and serverless. Idit also explained software tools that can simplify the migration process.
2019-02-2100 min
Cloud Engineering Archives - Software Engineering DailyGloo: Function Gateway with Idit Levine
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...
2018-05-1650 min
Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developersSE-Radio Episode 271: Idit Levine on UnikernelslJeff Meyerson talks to Idit Levine about Unikernels and unik, a project for compiling unikernels. The Linux kernel contains features that may be unnecessary to many application developers--particularly if those developers are deploying to the cloud. Unikernels allow programmers to specify the minimum features of an operating system we need to deploy our applications. Topics include the the Linux kernel, requirements for a cloud operating system, and how unikernels compare to Docker containers.
2016-10-1152 minSoftware Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developersSE-Radio Episode 271: Idit Levine on UnikernelslJeff Meyerson talks to Idit Levine about Unikernels and unik, a project for compiling unikernels. The Linux kernel contains features that may be unnecessary to many application developers--particularly if those developers are deploying to the cloud. Unikernels allow programmers to specify the minimum features of an operating system we need to deploy our applications. Topics include the the Linux kernel, requirements for a cloud operating system, and how unikernels compare to Docker containers.
2016-10-1152 minSoftware Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software DevelopersSE-Radio Episode 271: Idit Levine on UnikernelslJeff Meyerson talks to Idit Levine about Unikernels and unik, a project for compiling unikernels. The Linux kernel contains features that may be unnecessary to many application developers--particularly if those developers are deploying to the cloud. Unikernels allow programmers to specify the minimum features of an operating system we need to deploy our applications. Topics include the the Linux kernel, requirements for a cloud operating system, and how unikernels compare to Docker containers.
2016-10-1152 min
Open Source Archives - Software Engineering DailyUnikernels with Idit Levine
Unikernels allow us to specify the minimum features of an operating system we need to deploy our applications. We’ve had many shows about containers, which allow you to deploy your application on top of a segregated portion of an operating system. Unikernels are different because they can be deployed directly to bare metal or to a hypervisor.
Idit Levine works on Unikernels at EMC. We had an interview a few weeks ago with her colleague Scott Weiss, and today’s conversation goes deeper into the motivations for Unikernels, the problems they solve, and t...
2016-09-1455 min
The Hot AisleThe Hot Aisle – Taking the Enterprise to School with EMC Dojo – Episode 37Live from EMC World 2016!!! Our first trifecta of guests on the Podcast this go round: Brian Gallagher (@bgallagher32) – President of EMC’s Cloud Platform Team, Brian Roche (@brianrochebos) – Sr. Dir. of Engineering & Cloud Platforms for the Team, and Idit Levine @Idit_Levine – their CTO. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter […]
2016-05-1100 min