scope itemtype=http://schema.org/BlogPosting><div class=header-content><h1>Announcing the alpha availability of WebAssembly Plugins</h1><p>Introduction to the new Wasm Plugin API and updates to the Wasm-based plugin support in Envoy and Istio.</p></div><p class=post-author>Dec 16, 2021 <span>| </span>By Daniel Grimm - Red Hat, Pengyuan Bian - Google, Takeshi Yoneda - Tetrate</p><div><p><a href=../wasm-progress/>Istio 1.9 introduced</a> experimental support for WebAssembly (Wasm) module distribution and a Wa