Anton Weiss

Service meshes are all the buzz in the cloud native world. Let's get right into the mesh!

In this talk we will use [Meshery] (http://meshery.io) - the open-source service-mesh playground in order to install and run 3 leading service mesh solutions (Istio, Linkerd and Consul Connect) on a kubernetes cluster.

We will then see how each mesh provides us the basic expected functionality of reliability, security, observability and traffic splitting when connecting our microservices.

We will also see how we can benchmark different mesh solution performance using Meshery.

Finally we will discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by different service mesh implementations and the surrounding ecosystem.

The tutorial will be based on Otomato's experience with implementing service mesh in the last year and on the research performed by meshery.io and layer5.io comunities.

Deploying microservices to Kubernetes (and other cloud-native platforms) is only easy in theory.

The inherent complexity of distributed systems requires new techniques of observability, analysis

and resilience. Service mesh is an infrastructure-based architectural pattern that makes these

techniques possible in a smart, centralised way.

Things we’ll get our hands dirty with:

• building Docker images for our app
• deploying app versions to Kubernetes
• deploying and configuring Istio
• monitoring app performance with prometheus
• implementing the following deployment strategies:

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