What's a Service Mesh?

In this last episode of Kubernetes Bytes Season 2, Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner dive into Service Mesh. You will learn all about the benefits of Service Mesh, how it helps reduce overhead for developers, the different deployment models (sidecar and Ambient Mesh), and the challenges and benefits for each.

News:

• Trilio raises $17M - https://trilio.io/resources/funding-and-executive-update
• Snyk raises $196.5M at $7.4B valuation - https://snyk.io/news/snyk-closes-196-5-million-series-g-funding-at-7-4-billion-valuation/
• Blocks and Files - Kubernetes Storage Tests Update -  https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/12/15/ondat-beats-pures-portworx-in-container-storage-tests/

Links / Background:

• https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/definition/service-mesh
• https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/microservices/what-is-a-service-mesh
• https://linkerd.io/what-is-a-service-mesh/
• https://kublr.com/blog/implementing-a-service-mesh-with-istio-to-simplify-microservices-communication/
• https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/istio-ambient-explained/9781098142698/ch01.html
• https://istio.io/latest/blog/2022/introducing-ambient-mesh
• https://youtu.be/6zDrLvpfCK4
• https://youtu.be/16fgzklcF7Y

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