CNCF TAG Network and Service Mesh Working Group - Introduction and Project Overview

Explore the CNCF TAG Network and Service Mesh Working Group in this 29-minute conference talk featuring Lee Calcote, Ed Warnicke, and Ken Owens. Delve into the critical role of networking in cloud native deployments and microservice-based distributed systems. Learn about key networking primitives such as load balancing, observability, authentication, authorization, policy, rate limiting, QoS, mesh networks, and legacy infrastructure bridging. Gain insights into the service mesh projects stewarded by the working group, including introductions to CNCF TAG Network projects, working groups, and papers. Discover cross-project initiatives, service mesh specifications, patterns, and the Service Mesh Pattern Catalog. Understand the importance of distributed performance analysis in the context of cloud native networking.