Autoscaling Elastic Kubernetes Infrastructure for Stateful Applications Using Proxyless gRPC and Istio

Explore autoscaling and elastic infrastructure for stateful applications in Kubernetes using proxyless gRPC and Istio in this 31-minute conference talk by Google experts. Learn how to maintain stateful sessions between clients and servers while optimizing infrastructure and minimizing costs. Discover techniques for handling persistent sessions in the presence of load balancing, where Istio routes individual RPCs to various backends. Understand the challenges of consistent hashing and rendezvous load balancing when the set of backends changes. Examine the use of HTTP Cookies to achieve session persistence in Istio and proxyless gRPC. Gain insights into the process of draining backends for downsizing infrastructure without disrupting session persistence. This talk is ideal for developers and architects working with stateful applications in Kubernetes environments.