When can ztunnel become a production-ready project？

[ghtian123]

What further work is required in the production on the ztunnel? When can the production be used

[howardjohn]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BLIoPlSOyd4E6QmMAwmLY69_Kf381Fp0iwh1OajLLxs/edit is the tracking doc for driving it to "beta" at which point it will be ready for (cautious) production usage. We are going to turn that all into a github project as well but not ready yet

[RobCannon]

@howardjohn , that document mentions Istio 1.20 as the target for a beta release. I did not see such an announcement in the 1.20 release notes. Has the target release for ztunnel beta moved to 1.21 or later?

[howardjohn]

It will be 1.21 or later.

[howardjohn]

Ztunnel will be promoted to beta in Istio 1.22, in ~1 month