4 articles tagged with Service Mesh.
A service mesh buys you mTLS, traffic control, and uniform telemetry, and costs you a new distributed system. What it does, when it earns its keep, and how Istio, Linkerd, Cilium, and Consul compare.
A practical walkthrough to install Istio, turn on automatic mTLS, and run a canary traffic split on Kubernetes.
A practitioner's comparison of Cilium's eBPF, sidecar-less dataplane against Istio's Envoy sidecar and ambient mesh models.
A practitioner-grade breakdown of Istio and Linkerd across architecture, mTLS, traffic control, performance, and total cost of ownership.
