The Products and Technology Learning (PTL) group within Red Hat is responsible for creating technical enablement and training materials for employees and partners. With the rapid increase of new products, and the need to create corresponding training material quickly, an “open training” initiative is being launched to “crowdsource” the creation of content by employees and partners.

This talk demonstrates how we leveraged open source tools like Backstage, Eclipse Che, and Antora to provide a self-service authoring environment to simplify and automate the process of content creation.

The Istio project is an open-source service mesh platform designed to manage and secure communication between microservices in distributed systems. It provides a transparent, standardised layer that abstracts the complexities of service-to-service communication, allowing developers to focus on business logic while enhancing observability, security, and reliability.

This talk will provide an overview of the different features of Istio and demonstrate a few use-cases of how the service mesh can be used to control, observe and secure network traffic between microservices without changing source code or re-deploying the applications.