Details
• 6:00 PM : Doors open
• 6:00 PM - 6:15 PM : Pizza, Drinks, and Networking
• 6:15 PM - 7:15 PM : "A Management Plane for Service Meshes" by Lee Calcote, Founder, Layer5, Author of Istio: Up and Running
• 7:15PM - 7:30 PM : Open discussion on Service Mesh and Istio.

A Management Plane for Service Meshes

Which service mesh should I use and how do I get started? What are the different service meshes, and how do their architectures contrast?

This talk introduces Meshery, an open source, multi-service mesh management plane that provisions (six and counting) different service meshes, their sample applications and benchmarks the performance of service mesh deployments. Meshery facilitates benchmarking various configuration scenarios of service meshes, comparison of performance of services (applications) on and off the mesh and across different meshes. It vets mesh and services configuration against deployment best practices.

About the speaker

Lee Calcote is an innovative product and technology leader, passionate about empowering engineers with efficient and effective solutions. As Founder of Layer5, he is at the forefront of the cloud native movement. Open source, advanced and emerging technologies have been a consistent focus through Calcote’s tenure at SolarWinds, Seagate, Cisco and Schneider Electric. An advisor, author, and speaker, Calcote is active in the community as a Docker Captain, Cloud Native Ambassador and Google Summer of Code Mentor.