XDS-Relay - Performance Initiatives for Control Plane Management

Explore Lyft's experience running Envoy and their control plane at scale in this 29-minute conference talk. Dive into the challenges of operating a service mesh reactive to Kubernetes' dynamic infrastructure and evolving xDS versions. Learn about xds-relay, an open-source project developed by Lyft for lightweight caching, aggregation, and low-latency distribution of xDS protos to thousands of clients over gRPC. Discover Lyft's vision for the future of control planes, covering topics such as pluggable xDS transformations, automatic endpoint subsetting, API-driven configurations, and State-of-the-world to Delta xDS conversion. Gain insights into the architecture of xds-relay and see a demonstration of its capabilities and potential extensions.