Service mesh technologies have gained significant interest in the past year. We often hear or read the words “Service Mesh” in blog posts or videos nowadays. But most of these don’t explain what the “Service Mesh” really is. In this talk, Anubhav Mishra helps us understand the components that make up a “Service Mesh” and how “Service Mesh” can help developers and operators adopt smart networking techniques to empower their organizations.
We will examine:
1. The history of the term “Service Mesh”.
2. What it takes to create a service mesh control plane and a data plane.
3. Responsibilities of each of those components and why they are critical to the overall functioning of a service mesh.
4. Real-world example of a service mesh in action that connects services running in VMs and containers securely.
Anubhav Mishra is a Technical Advisor to the CTO at HashiCorp. He is passionate about Developer Advocacy and helping developers and operators do better. Previously, he worked at Hootsuite, where he created Atlantis - An Open Source project that helps teams collaborate on Infrastructure using Terraform. Anubhav loves working with distributed systems and exploring new technologies. He also loves open source software and is continuously finding ways to contribute to projects that excite him. That has led him to contribute to projects like Virtual Kubelet (a CNCF project) and dapr. He often speaks at conferences. He is also writing a book on Vault called Getting Started with HashiCorp Vault. In his free time, he DJs, makes music and plays football. He’s a huge Manchester United supporter.
