Changing Oil for a Fast Running - Side Car Quickly and Safely

Learn how Pinterest achieves rapid and secure mesh configuration deployment across thousands of clusters in this conference talk. Explore the architecture, design considerations, and best practices that enable configuration changes to be fully deployed in under 25 minutes through all stages and availability zones serially, with zero incidents during xDS v3 migration. Discover the comprehensive pre-deploy validation, holistic health checks, and specially designed feedback channel based on xDS that ensure safety without sacrificing speed. Gain insights into the machinery that automatically carries config changes to VMs, dockerized hosts, and Kubernetes, and learn how issues are quickly identified within minutes. Delve into the three perspectives of configuration, mesh, and who owns the mesh, and understand how Pinterest addresses negative feedback loops, failures, and confidence in their system. Examine the importance of visibility and explore best practices for achieving configuration nirvana in large-scale environments.