Istio is a powerful service mesh for managing and orchestrating microservices in complex distributed systems. However, microservices environments with Istio often involve numerous interconnected services running on multiple nodes, resulting in inefficient resource allocation, significant energy consumption and performance degradation.

To address these challenges, we propose Kepler and Istio that gain better visibility and observability into microservices ecosystem and then use smart scheduling for resource allocation and optimization. The strategies leverage intelligent algorithms and heuristics to dynamically allocate resources, balance workloads, and optimize service placement. To do so, overall resource utilization, energy efficiency and performance can be improved.

In the session, we will demonstrate one real case to use Kepler, Istio and smart scheduling strategies to monitor and optimize larger distributed microservices system to enhance overall performance and sustainability.