With cloud-native architectures, we face the challenges of distributed systems in terms of integration, failures, discovery, and monitoring. Istio and Kubernetes together meet these challenges, by providing an additional layer between services and the network, enabling you to control orchestration outside code. This revolutionizes the way services are connected, managed, and secured in cloud-native architectures. Through a series of quick demos and Java code snippets, this session showcases how you can start utilizing Istio on Kubernetes for your own Java-based microservice architecture. In addition, the presentation highlights other Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) fleet tools (Kiali, Jaeger, and more) for implementing a better microservice architecture.