Platform Engineering meets Service Mesh: an SRE love story
summary
Argues that adding Istio and Envoy gives platform teams concrete wins: Istio installs a control plane and sidecars to capture every request, delivers Envoy sidecar observability and traffic control, and enables mutual TLS out of the box. Demo shows a workshop repo, Prometheus metrics, and an alternative proxy-per-node deployment to reduce proxy cost. Covers certificate management options (external CA, cert-manager, SPIRE), progressive delivery, service discovery, and practical troubleshooting steps for introducing a mesh.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:25What is platform engineering
- 7:11SRE culture and values
- 9:17Cloud native applications defined
- 11:28Service mesh explained
- 14:56Why use a service mesh
- 17:27Istio as a service mesh
- 23:50Tying platform engineering and SRE
- 26:43Building resilient platforms
- 27:05Practical tips for service mesh
- 28:54Q&A session
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