What is a service mesh and why do I need one?

An intro to the problem space, what a service mesh is, and how it relates to current complexity and manageability problems. Presented at CfgMgmtCamp in Ghent, Belgium.

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1. What is a service mesh and why do I need one? George Miranda @gmiranda23 CfgMgmtCamp Ghent 2018
5. George Miranda Director of Community @BuoyantIO @gmiranda23
6. George Miranda Director of Community @BuoyantIO @gmiranda23 • ConfigMgmtCamp since 2014 (6 of 7) • Chef Software 2012-2017
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9. Microservices can be abstracted as highly distributed application architecture @gmiranda23
10. data web web web worker worker worker data data data worker @gmiranda23
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12. The problem @gmiranda23
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17. The solution @gmiranda23
18. Circuit breakers Timeouts Your code looks like this now Biz Logic Timeouts Telemetry RPC code Distributed state Client-side Service Discovery @gmiranda23
19. Timeouts Your infrastructure looks like this now Timeouts Circuit Biz Logic Telemetry RPC code Distributed Client-side Circuit Biz Logic Telemetry RPC code Distributed Client-side Circuit Biz Logic Telemetry RPC code Distributed Client-side Circuit Biz Logic Telemetry RPC code Distributed Client-side Circuit Biz Logic Telemetry RPC code Distributed Client-side Circuit Biz Logic Telemetry RPC code Distributed Client-side Circuit Biz Logic Telemetry RPC code Distributed Client-side Circuit Biz Logic Telemetry RPC code Distributed Client-side Circuit Biz Logic Telemetry RPC code Distributed Client-side Circuit Biz Logic Telemetry RPC code Distributed Client-side Circuit Biz Logic Telemetry RPC code Distributed Client-side Circuit Biz Logic Telemetry RPC code Distributed Client-side Circuit Biz Logic Telemetry RPC code Distributed Client-side Circuit Biz Logic Telemetry RPC code Distributed Client-side
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21. The service mesh @gmiranda23
22. @gmiranda23 Control Plane Data Plane
23. Navigating the ecosystem @gmiranda23
24. Navigating the ecosystem @gmiranda23 (Ghent Kubernetes Meetup Tonight)
25. Service Communication as a 1st class citizen @gmiranda23
26. Production grade objects — Visibility — Control — Manageability @gmiranda23
27. Visibility Metrics Distributed Tracing @gmiranda23
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30. Resilience Timeouts Deadlines Retries Retry Budgets Circuit Breaking @gmiranda23
31. Preventing cascading failures @gmiranda23
32. Security Service Auth Model TLS by default @gmiranda23
33. An opportunity to bridge practices @gmiranda23
34. @gmiranda23 Service communication needs config too
35. @gmiranda23 Do I need a service mesh?
36. Thank you! Q & A @gmiranda23