Platform Engineering Meets Service Mesh: An SRE Love Story

Overview

Discover how service mesh technology enhances platform engineering and empowers Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) in this 54-minute webinar. Learn about the fundamentals of service mesh, its role in improving platform security, and best practices for integration. Explore the intersection of platform engineering, cloud-native infrastructures, and service mesh through expert insights from Alessandro Vozza, a CNCF ambassador and Developer Relations professional at Solo.io. Gain valuable knowledge on topics such as self-service, cognitive load reduction, automation, cloud-native landscapes, and the challenges of microservices. Delve into Istio, zero-trust security, and practical implementation strategies for various environments, including multicluster setups and batch jobs. Acquire tips for getting started, migrating existing systems, and leveraging service mesh in different scenarios to enhance your platform engineering and SRE capabilities.

Syllabus

Introduction
About the speaker
What is platform engineering
Platform Engineering Foundation
Selfservice
Cognitive load
Teamwork
Engineering is a discipline
Automation comes from DevOps
Metrics
Cloud Native Landscape
Service Mesh
What is Service Mesh
The fallacy
Cloud native and microservices
Challenges with microservices
Service mesh is solid
Istio
Milestone
Gateways
Telemetry
Visualization
Zero Trust
SRE
Building on great platforms
Swapping tools
Conclusion
Tips
Starting point
Migration
Google and Facebook
AWS ECS
Implementing multicluster measures
Service mesh for batch jobs
Connecting services outside the cluster
Job opportunities
Sidecar containers
Demos
Extra computing power
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