Deploying Service Mesh in Production

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Concrete guidance for running a service mesh in production: use Istio with Envoy sidecars, separate Istio control plane vs data plane into distinct namespaces, run gateways separately for ingress and inter-cluster traffic, and manage certificates for mTLS via your PKI. Demos show kubectl installs, labeling namespaces for injection, a revisions-based canary upgrade (observed proxy 1.9.5 → 1.10.0), and configuring the proxy to start before the app to avoid startup failures. Focus on observability, gradual rollout, and automation around upgrades.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 8:40Do you have supporting infrastructure?
3. 9:19Service mesh "lite" aka "waypoints"
4. 10:08Start at the edge!
5. 11:00Pick a specific use case, iterate

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