Have Half The Service Mesh With Half The Mess
Presented at Cloud Native Rejekts 2024
Have you ever wanted to enjoy the benefits of a service mesh but didn’t want to deal with all the overhead? Projects Linkerd, Knative, and Istio are all highly capable and advanced platforms! But they come with non-trivial installation and management burdens.
What if you could leverage some of the features and power of a service mesh without the overhead? Good news: you can! This talk will show you how you can run two different, ultra-lightweight solutions to provide some of the powerful service mesh features you love without all the mess. Agenda:
The basics of xDS
Using a ConfigMap and a sidecar to get service mesh features without a control plane
Running a custom lightweight xDS control plane and smart gRPC clients to get service mesh features without a sidecar
In short: How you can get the features you want with a sidecar and no control plane; or a control plane with no sidecar. Like chocolate and peanut butter: they go great together, but are also great on their own!
Where
Salt Lake City Utah