ServiceMeshCon EU 2021 Notes

Ashley Fernandes
3 min readMay 14, 2021

Keynote

Session — Multi Cluster

challenges

  • discovery
  • DNS
  • LB policy
  • Security

Session — Istio Beyond Kube

Session — Crawl, walk, run & fly

Session — Multi Cluster

Session — Mesh Extension points

Session — Kiali

Detect and add missing sidecars

Expose services using G/Ws

Observe — Overview(NSs), Graph (flow between services, query services with > 40% traffic), Traces,

Traffic Shifting, — update traffic rules

Fault Injection — creation of rule

Security — create traffic policies

Session — Mesh Future

Decide when to use a mesh?

more microservices, cloud native, need a platform team

manage a plaform easier than writing code

Current State of Mesh?

inevitable in 5 years

Next?

LinkerdD — Policies, mTLS, Identity,extensions

Hashi — easier to operate, diff clouds — managed, multi cluster, VMs, native feel

Istio — day2 operations, upgrades, complaince and security, managed istio

Gloo — Day2, multi cluster, manage istio instances, web assembly, developer portal

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Ashley Fernandes

Senior engineering lead, manager & architect, proficient in solutioning complex technical challenges and building & managing modern platform product teams.