Navigating the Service Mesh Landscape - Paul Bouwer, Microsoft
summary
Compares Istio, Linkerd and Consul by design goals, actual features and operational costs: Istio: full‑featured, extensible, multi‑cluster and VM support but historically high sidecar overhead; Linkerd: lightweight, simple, mTLS-first, Kubernetes‑only with very low latency; Consul: API‑driven, integrates with Vault, runs across VMs and k8s but uses its own service model not k8s DNS. Covers control‑plane vs data‑plane, sidecar vs node proxy, Helm vs operator installs, ecosystem tools (Flagger, Service Mesh Interface, Solo hub) and community benchmarking.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 1:09Why Do We Need a Service Mesh
- 3:35Dynamic Workloads
- 4:28Resiliency and Observability
- 8:07Encryption
- 12:08Design Goals
- 12:55Policy Uniformity
- 16:09Linker D
- 23:10Service Mesh Interface
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