Planning the Zero-Downtime Lifecycle of Your Service Mesh

Overview

Explore essential patterns and practices for successful service mesh lifecycle management in this 19-minute conference talk by Christian Posta from Solo.io. Learn how to plan zero-downtime deployments and upgrades for your service mesh, a critical component of application infrastructure. Discover key strategies such as separating ingress, running canaries, and limiting configuration blast radius. Gain insights from real-world experiences of mesh adopters worldwide and acquire a core set of practices to effectively manage your service mesh lifecycle. Understand the importance of architecture and deployment patterns in ensuring smooth operations and upgrades beyond the initial implementation stage.

Syllabus

CHRISTIAN POSTA
First ever Service Mesh Radar Report
Service mesh is a critical piece of application networking infrastructure
Loss of communication between control plane and data plane
Loss of ingress to the mesh
Bad configurations
Complementary components for a service mesh
Separate lifecycle in operator configurations
Canary control plane and gateway
Scope down configuration
Scope down global configuration