Sidecar-less Istio explained

• Verfasst von: Sun, Lin [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Posta, Christian E. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Sidecar-less Istio explained
• Titelzusatz: lowering the barrier to service mesh adoption with ambient mode
• Verf.angabe: Lin Sun and Christian Posta
• Ausgabe: First edition.
• Verlagsort: Sebastopol, CA
• Verlag: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: 1 online resource (46 pages)
• Illustrationen: illustrations
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Ordinateurs ; Architecture
• Sach-SW: Réseaux d'ordinateurs ; Gestion
• Sach-SW: Applications Web
• Sach-SW: Logiciels d'application ; Développement
• Sach-SW: Interfaces de programmation d'applications
• Sach-SW: APIs (interfaces)
• K10plus-PPN: 1910497908
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• Lokale URL UB: Bibliothek der Medizinischen Fakultät Mannheim der Universität Heidelberg
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Abstract

Service meshes, such as Istio, provide a lot of value to teams running microservices architectures or cloud workloads. But there are a few drawbacks. Most service meshes use a sidecar proxy to implement their capabilities, but sidecars introduce complexities that incur costly operation complexity and resource overhead. There is a solution. This report introduces developers, software architects, and platform engineers to "ambient mode," a sidecar-less architecture that allows platform teams to run Istio without sidecars. Authors Lin Sun and Christian Posta explain how this sidecar-less data plane, developed by Solo.io and Google, improves the operational experience of adopting, deploying, upgrading, and generally managing Istio throughout its life as critical infrastructure.