service mesh

Bridging, not Breaking Tradition: Use Service Mesh Expansion to Connect Legacy Workloads to Kubernetes Services

Bridging, not Breaking Tradition: Use Service Mesh Expansion to Connect Legacy Workloads to Kubernetes Services

March 1, 2020

Kubernetes has become a preferred platform for hosting distributed and portable services and applications. With this, Istio service mesh can be deployed to address service discovery, service-to-servic …
Istio on Knative Lessons Learned: How Istio is Fit for Serverless Platform

Istio on Knative Lessons Learned: How Istio is Fit for Serverless Platform

February 29, 2020

Serverless is the emerging technology to support microservices. Istio is a popular service mesh platform. How Istio is fit for a serverless platform? Its a question that developers and users of both …
Highly available cross-region deployments with Kubernetes

Highly available cross-region deployments with Kubernetes

February 27, 2020

Out-of-the-box Kubernetes makes it easy to deploy and scale your applications within one Kubernetes cluster in one single region. But it's also possible to deploy an application over multiple clusters in different regions, so it becomes truly highly available even if a complete region fails. Learn how to deploy one application across multiple federated Kubernetes clusters with Bastian Hofmann.
Revolutionizing a bank: Introducing service mesh and a secure container platform

Revolutionizing a bank: Introducing service mesh and a secure container platform

February 26, 2020

For years, Janna Brummel and Robin van Zijll have been told no to any external hosting. They've always lost time by not being able to use open source and cloud native products without adjustments. All because they work for a bank. Things are changing now: Janna and Robin are proving it's possible to run APIs in a secure container platform in the public cloud.
Moving to a Service Mesh

Moving to a Service Mesh

February 25, 2020

Historically, Indeed has used Boxcar (Indeeds proprietary framework) to build distributed systems. Over the last year, we have been shifting several of our systems to use gRPC over anEnvoy service m …
Peeling Layers: A Deep Dive into Kubernetes Networking

Peeling Layers: A Deep Dive into Kubernetes Networking

February 25, 2020

Kubernetes is a platform that offers great extensibility and flexibility to its users. However, like most distributed systems, managing Kubernetes comes with its own set of challenges. Ensuring resili …
Service Mesh in a Nutshell

Service Mesh in a Nutshell

February 25, 2020

Software applications have evolved from monoliths to microservices in a move towards becoming Cloud Native. The Cloud provides numerous benefits over traditional platforms. However, transitioning towa …
Comparison of Current Service Mesh Architectures

Comparison of Current Service Mesh Architectures

February 22, 2020

A service mesh provides visibility, traffic management, resiliency and security control for distributed application services. This presentation focuses on the differences between service meshes and se …
Service Mesh Up and Running in 5 Minutes

Service Mesh Up and Running in 5 Minutes

February 13, 2020

Service Mesh technology is super powerful and super complicated at the same time.With a service mesh, we are able to add complex network routing, telemetry and reporting, TLS security, fault injection …
BoF: Istio Service Mesh Improvement

BoF: Istio Service Mesh Improvement

February 11, 2020

Istio is an open platform that provides a consistent way to connect, secure, control, and observe micro services across your service mesh. In this BOF session, Lin provides a quick update of the key f …
Building the Next Telco: Introduction to Network Service Mesh

Building the Next Telco: Introduction to Network Service Mesh

February 1, 2020

The technology evolution drives a significant continuous increase in the total number of connected devices and the overall generated traffic. This pushes network service providers, like ISPs and Telco …
Navigating the Service Mesh Landscape with Istio, Consul Connect, and Linkerd

Navigating the Service Mesh Landscape with Istio, Consul Connect, and Linkerd

January 31, 2020

Service mesh has hit the cloud-native computing community like.a storm and we're starting to see gradual adoption across the enterprise. There are a handful of open-source service mesh implementations …
I'm a developer; should I care about a service mesh?

I'm a developer; should I care about a service mesh?

January 29, 2020

Understanding what problems a service mesh is designed to solve and leveraging its capabilities is key for application developers. This allows you to focus on the pieces you need to build your application and deliver business value. Neeraj Poddar dissects which service mesh capabilities you should care about and explores common questions from platform teams.
Building resilient microservices

Building resilient microservices

January 17, 2020

The resiliency of microservices-based applications heavily depends on how well they handle interservice communication over an unreliable network. Kasun Indrasiri provides an in-depth overview of common microservice resiliency patterns such as timeout, retry, circuit breaker, fail-fast, bulkhead, transactions, and failover/load balancing, and the role service meshes play in realizing them.
Kernel-based Forwarding Plane for Network Service Mesh

Kernel-based Forwarding Plane for Network Service Mesh

January 8, 2020

Network Service Mesh is a novel approach solving complicated L2/L3 use cases in Kubernetes that are challenging to address with the existing networking model. The forwarding plane is one of the two ke …
Tutorial: Take a Test Drive with the Cloud Native Network Function (CNF) Testbed

Tutorial: Take a Test Drive with the Cloud Native Network Function (CNF) Testbed

January 8, 2020

The Cloud Native Network Function (CNF) Testbed is a CNCF initiative to provide a neutral space for exploring and evaluating open source networking technologies and their interoperability. The initiat …
Cloud Native Network Provisioning with Network Service Mesh in the CNF Testbed

Cloud Native Network Provisioning with Network Service Mesh in the CNF Testbed

December 31, 2019

Network Service Mesh (NSM) is a CNCF sandbox project. NSM augments the Kubernetes networking to support running workloads for domains which are not covered by the default networking provided in K8s in …
Kubernetes for NFV - VNFs and CNFs

Kubernetes for NFV - VNFs and CNFs

December 31, 2019

Many know that IT applications as containers can be orchestrated by Kubernetes. Do you know that there are industry efforts to extend Kubernetes to deploy Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) and Containe …
Panel Discussion: Towards Kubernetes as the Network Service Orchestrator

Panel Discussion: Towards Kubernetes as the Network Service Orchestrator

December 29, 2019

In the current landscape, network services are defined by a slow-moving standards ecosystem (TOSCA etc.) with vendor proprietary extensions. With the advent of Edge Computing and 5G, dynamism of Netwo …
Only Slightly Bent: Ubers Kubernetes Migration Journey for Microservices

Only Slightly Bent: Ubers Kubernetes Migration Journey for Microservices

December 22, 2019

Uber started using docker containers at scale in 2015, and has gone through a few generations of cluster management and service discovery technologies. In early 2019, we started working on migration f …
Service Mesh: There and Back Again

Service Mesh: There and Back Again

December 20, 2019

You might have heard about service mesh and its amazing benefits. Maybe you believe its the next big thing, but will it truly meet expectations? As any start to a relationship, things look fun and ea …
A service mesh is easy to swallow in small pieces (sponsored by Aspen Mesh)

A service mesh is easy to swallow in small pieces (sponsored by Aspen Mesh)

December 19, 2019

You're probably skeptical of the hype around service mesh technology. Join Andrew Jenkins to learn how incremental adoption can make a service mesh successful on your terms. You'll learn trade-offs around a few of the top capabilities so you can prioritize what your project adopts today and what you can defer based on your own risk-reward profile.
Take Envoy Beyond a K8s Service Mesh - to Legacy Bare Metal and VMs + More

Take Envoy Beyond a K8s Service Mesh - to Legacy Bare Metal and VMs + More

December 18, 2019

Envoys mission is to extract network and communication security code from applications in a way that developers and users can deploy components that just work no matter where they run or what hosts t …
Intro: Linkerd

Intro: Linkerd

December 17, 2019

In this session, William Morgan will provide an introduction to Linkerd, the CNCF's service mesh project. Linkerd features blazing fast performance, an ultralight footprint, a Kubernetes-native design …
10 Weird Ways to Blow Up Your Kubernetes

10 Weird Ways to Blow Up Your Kubernetes

December 15, 2019

Its a brand new world in infrastructure with the advent of microservices, containerization, Kubernetes, and service mesh. And all is well. Or is it? Find out how easy it is to break container runtime …
The future of cloud-native programming (sponsored by IBM)

The future of cloud-native programming (sponsored by IBM)

December 15, 2019

Today, we are witnessing a great proliferation of cloud-native paradigms such as 12-factor apps, microservices, and serverless. Tamar Eilam discusses an emerging unified cloud platform (based on open source projects such as Kubernetes and Istio) and explains why the new frontier is its evolution to unify multiple programming paradigms for greater simplification with power of expression.
Panel: Is Service Mesh Ready for Edge-Native Applications?

Panel: Is Service Mesh Ready for Edge-Native Applications?

December 12, 2019

Edge deployments, in contrast to large public clouds, pose interesting demands since they are physically insecure & capacity constrained. Also, Edge Computing Apps such as AR-VR, have low-latency char …
Sponsored Keynote: Network, Please Evolve Chapter 2

Sponsored Keynote: Network, Please Evolve Chapter 2

December 11, 2019

Connectivity, security, and observability are critical to developer productivity and application velocity. The Network Service Mesh (or NSM) Project attempts to simplify how multi-cluster networking i …