Buoyant: Software startup developing network mesh solutions for cloud applications.

In practice, Istio appears to have issues not only with complexity and UX but with performance.
In fact, the initial version of Linkerd was simply Finagle wrapped up in proxy form.
From Linkerd’s perspective, gRPC is actually the same as HTTP/2, you just happen to be using protobuf in the payload.
From the developer’s perspective, needless to say, it’s quite different.
Finally, a particular shoutout to the creator of Linkerd, Oliver Gould , who took the plunge with me on this whole service mesh thing a long time ago.

The service mesh was created to offset some of the operational burden created by a microservices architecture.
Those with experience in microservices architectures understand that they have a significant amount of work to operate on a daily basis.
Taking full advantage of the potential of microservices normally requires external tooling to take care of centralized logging, configuration management, and scalability mechanisms, amongst others.
Utilizing a service mesh standardizes these capabilities, and their setup and integration.

Originally named Maesh, Traefik Mesh is another newcomer in the service mesh tooling race.
The project mission would be to democratize the service mesh by rendering it user friendly and configure; the developers’ experience with the well-thought-out Traefik Proxy put them in a prime position to perform that.
In addition, it serves distributed traces and access logs, boasting explicit compatibility with Jaeger, Lightstep, and Zipkin to enable tracing.
Consul Connect includes a steeper learning curve compared to the other service meshes and will need more tuning to run visual dashboards and metrics.
With Consul Connect, it’s possible to accomplish app integrations as deep as the pre-service-mesh implementations at top-tier tech companies.
This is because of the exposure of a fully documented, library-level API.
Consul includes a solid enterprise community and has been recognized to run on

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Thanks to a strange confluence of events, this phrase has been rolling around the industry like a giant Katamari ball, glomming on successively bigger bits of marketing and hype and showing no signs of stopping any time soon.
We had just begun conversations with Barclays and needed to prove we could scale to meet their needs.

• As one of the first service meshes, Linkerd has a thriving community and a thorough group of documentation and tutorials.
• Over the last decade, we have witnessed the growing prominence of DevOps within both technical and enterprise communities.
• In the end, that type of library was replaced having an easier-to-use, lightweight proxy.

The Consul Connect data plane is founded on Envoy, which is written in C++.
Here is the part that is backed by Consul KV, a key-value store.

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You’re adding two proxy hops to every call, one on the client side and one on the server side.
The service mesh was created in the murky, trend-infested waters of the cloud native ecosystem, which inturn means that a huge amount of service mesh content ranges from “low-calorie fluff” to—to work with a technical term—“basically bullshit”.
But there’s some real, concrete, and important value to the service mesh, when you can cut through all the noise.
The Service Mesh market is growing at a steady rate sufficient reason for the rising adoption of strategies by key players, the marketplace is likely to rise over the projected horizon.
The Service Mesh Market key insights have already been presented through the frameworks of SWOT and Porter’s Five Forces analysis along with the attractiveness of the marketplace has been presented by sales, revenue, distribution channel, product type, and region.
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To be sure, the global cloud microservices market is growing at a ~20% CAGR and likely to reach ~$3bn in spend by 2026 .
Generally, as a lighter-weight option to service meshes originally designed for web-scale companies, Morgan says Linkerd continues to get traction.
It’s too early to state whether organizations will standardize on any single service mesh, he adds.
It’s not just the identity of the calling workload which determines if access should be granted; we want to look at which person is trying to make the request.
When our users are logged directly into our mobile app, every API request sent has a JWT in the HTTP Authorization header.
If our services forward this field then every service inside our cluster can know which person the request is on behalf of.

• With regards to architecture, Consul Connect is based around agents and servers.
• Google extended Istio to enable hybrid and multi-cloud capabilities through Anthos Service Mesh.
• Sysdig used its time at KubeCon to explain how its technology works also to give away copies of its newly released book, Practical Cloud Native Security with Falco, along with a Securing Containers & Cloud ‘For Dummies’ guide.
• One last area of innovation is solutions being built

The control plane interacts with proxies to push configurations, ensure service discovery, and centralize observability.
The info plane, which handles communications near the application.
Typically this is deployed with the application form as a set of network proxies, as illustrated earlier.
While agile development has historically been effective in reducing development times by increasing communication between developers and key stakeholders, DevOps applies exactly the same cultural norms to post-development tasks across communities and collaborators.
Firms with DevOps tend to witness increased deployment frequency on-demand , lead times (under one hour vs. up to weeks), and mean-time-to-recover (under an hour vs. up to several days).

Learn how Linkerd delivers reliability, observability, and security features without requiring any code changes from developers.
In episode 6 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc speaks with William Morgan of Buoyant.
They discuss the complex service mesh ecosystem, plus the origin and roadmap of Linkerd.

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I am among the creators of Linkerd, the very first service mesh project and the project that gave birth to the term service mesh itself.
(Sorry!) I’m also the CEO of Buoyant, a startup that builds cool service mesh stuff like Linkerd and Buoyant Cloud.