Welcome to the Istio community!
This is the starting point for becoming a contributor - improving code, improving docs, giving talks, etc.
Other Documents
- Contributing to Istio - guidelines and advice on becoming a contributor
- Working Groups - describes our various working groups
- Reviewing and Merging Pull Requests for Istio - how we manage pull requests
Istio is an open platform for providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow across microservices, enforce policies and aggregate telemetry data. Istio's control plane provides an abstraction layer over the underlying cluster management platform, such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.
Visit istio.io for in-depth information about using Istio.
Istio is an open source project with an active development community. The project was started by teams from Google and IBM, in partnership with the Envoy team at Lyft.
We have PUBLIC and RECORDED bi-weekly community meetings every Thursday at 11am US Pacific Time.
Map that to your local time with this timezone table.
See also https://istio.io/community/.
Documentation (like the text you are reading now) can always use improvement!
There's a list of issues that should not need deep knowledge of the system.
To dig deeper, read a design doc, e.g. architecture.
There's always code that can be clarified and variables or functions that can be renamed or commented.
There's always a need for more test coverage.
Pose questions and help answer them on istio/issues.
If you have a question about Istio or have a problem using it, please start with istio/issues. If that doesn't answer your questions, or if you think you found a bug, please file an issue.