also gained popularity in this corner of the world. Almost all Chinese CSPs have creating and are running service mesh products based on Istio.</p><p>We welcomed thousands of Istio users and developers to the first IstioCon in February 2021, and the attendees expressed an interest in participating in more meetups and helping to grow the community at the local level.</p><p>To this end, the Istio community united six partners — the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Alibaba Cloud, H