How to Get a Service Mesh Into Prod without Getting Fired

Youve researched your service mesh options, made your decision, and are ready to deploy your very first service mesh. But how do you add a new communications infra layer across your entire production …

You’ve researched your service mesh options, made your decision, and are ready to deploy your very first service mesh. But how do you add a new communications infra layer across your entire production stack without bringing the whole thing down? In this talk, William Morgan (Buoyant) shares war stories from two years of helping users get their service mesh running in production. He shares examples of how teams with hybrid infrastructures adopt a service mesh between modern and legacy systems, how they use a service mesh to migrate production services from on-premises to the cloud, and other alternative approaches that don’t require a high-risk revamp of your entire architecture..