Sidecarless Service Mesh: Are you ready?
Check out how eBPF technology is transforming the service mesh space!
You may already be familiar with Service Mesh if you work in the software development field. There has been a growing trend towards using it in mainstream software development practices for about two to three years now. InfoQ in their Software Architecture Trends 2021 report, had put Service Mesh into the Early Majority pillar.
Service Mesh Refresher
In Oct 2020, I had written an article The Roles of Service Mesh and API Gateways in Microservice Architecture. There I had explained the Service Mesh in detail. Here is a quick refresher —
A service mesh is a technology that manages service-to-service communication within a distributed software system. Service meshes manage the east-west type of network communications. East-west traffic indicates a traffic flow inside a data center, Kubernetes cluster, or a distributed system.
Evolution Service Mesh Models
So far there are well known two types of Service Mesh Models
