Monthly Meeting - Hands on with OpenShift Service Mesh

Our monthly technical meeting

Now that the first generations of micro service applications have deployed, some of the difficulties with developing and maintaining these applications have become apparent, especially as they increase in complexity. Service mesh is one of the responses to those difficulties that will benefit the next generation of applications. The service mesh provides basic discovery, load balancing, failure recovery, metrics, and monitoring services to the services within an application, as well as more advanced features such as A/B testing, canary rollouts, rate limiting, access control, and end-to-end authentication.

A collection of projects come together to offer mesh capabilities:

• Configurable interconnect of services via Istio
• Tracing and measurement via Jaeger
• Visualization via Kiali

Bio: Patrick Ladd is a Technical Account Manager focusing on OpenShift and platform products, and the founder and organizer of NYRHUG.

We also welcome a few lightning talks to kick off the meeting - brief 5-10 minute presentations on any relevant group topic - please contact Patrick if you'd like to present one.

After the meeting we'll adjourn to a local watering hole for adult beverages and a bite to eat.