Panel Discussion: Service Mesh Maturity: Are We There Yet?
summary
Panelists compare concrete progress: Kubernetes traffic routing converges on the Gateway API (GAMMA) so Ingress and mesh routing share one model; many teams only adopt meshes for mTLS and policy rather than full feature sets; operators wrestle with sidecar overhead so sidecarless / ambient mode (and eBPF-hidden sidecars) appear as experiments to avoid pod restarts and per‑pod CPU/memory cost; managed meshes and tighter Vault integration emerge as the practical way to cut human operational cost while feature layering preserves advanced use cases.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:03Service mesh maturity today
- 7:09Gateway API and GAMMA
- 13:52Sidecarless service mesh trend
- 23:28Service mesh TCO
- 32:35Power versus simplicity
- 41:05Closing and Q&A
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