CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025

At Uber, we give service owners the autonomy to build and deploy what they think is right to get the job done. However, this comes with the challenge of applying a consistent baseline of encryption and authorization across dozens of languages, frameworks, and off-the-shelf software. To solve this problem, we needed to re-orient from targeting individual applications and frameworks to a foundational solution that worked regardless of application type.

This talk will cover Uber's journey from having targeted encryption, authentication, and authorization deployed internally to 100% coverage in the span of 2 years by transparently encrypting, authenticating, and authorizing billions of connections. We will cover how Envoy enabled and accelerated this transformation as well as our operational learnings from development, deployment, and our first year with Uber fully onboarded.