Open Source Summit + ELC Europe 2019

Service mesh has hit the cloud-native computing community like.a storm and we're starting to see gradual adoption across the enterprise. There are a handful of open-source service mesh implementations to choose from including Istio, Consul Connect and LinkerD. In this talk we'll cover why and when you may want to use a service mesh vs when you may want to just stick with a library/NetflixOSS/application approach. Then we'll dig into three popular open-source service-mesh implementations and explore their goals, strengths, and weaknesses. The audience should come away with a good foundation from which to explore service mesh technology and ask the right questions to get to the right answer for them.