KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025

Wished you knew how to contribute code for Istio, the most popular service mesh and a CNCF graduated project? Where to get started with contributing to Istio? How to get involved with the community? Join us to learn an overview of architecture on how Istio works, how to set up a development environment, how to contribute, develop and test Istio useful in day-to-day use. We will explore the necessary tooling to build Istio from source and run unit and end-to-end tests. After setting up the environment, we will contribute to the Istio project. Maintainers will provide a curated set of GitHub issues for the session, focusing on good-first issues. We will review useful resources and ways to interact with the project and community and guide you through your first contribution. This session is intended to expand Istio's contributor base, and help new contributors onboard and familiarize with the project and maintainers alike!