NGINX Interview: Enterprise Adoption of Software Load Balancing, API Gateways, and Service Meshes
InfoQ recently sat down with Rob Whiteley, Sidney Rabsatt, Liam Crilly from NGINX, and discussed their views on the future of networking and data center communication. NGINX aims to be a “trusted advisor” and provide an “easy on-ramp” for enterprises looking to leverage software load balancers, ingress gateways, and service meshes, as is appropriate to their current technology landscape and goals.
Q&A with IBM's Lin Sun on Istio 1.0 and Microservices
InfoQ caught up with Lin Sun, a senior technical member at IBM and also a participant in the open source Istio project release team, regarding Istio in general and the 1.0 release in particular.
Istio v1.0 Service Mesh Released with Feature “Ready for Production Use”
At the Google Cloud Next 2018 event, the release of Istio 1.0 service was announced. Key new features include cross-cluster mesh support, fine-grained traffic flow control, and the ability to incrementally roll out mutual TLS across a mesh.
QLoo Creates GraphQL Interface for Existing Services
Solo.io recently released QLoo , an API translation layer to provide GraphQL endpoints for existing services and serverless functions. QLoo is intended to simplify the process of adding GraphQL on top of existing software.
Buoyant's Conduit Service Mesh Officially Becomes Linkerd 2
Conduit officially merged into the Linkerd project and released as Linkerd 2 (Beta). In addition to regular Linkerd 1 releases, Linkerd 2 (beta) artifacts are now being generated. Linkerd 2 code is fully open sourced and available on their GitHub repository. Conduit 0.5.0 is its last official release of the Conduit project.
HashiCorp Releases Consul 1.2 with "Consul Connect" Service Mesh Solution
HashiCorp has released Consul 1.2.1, the latest version of their highly available and distributed service discovery and key-value store, which also includes a public beta launch of the Consul Connect. Consul Connect provides service-to-service connection authorization and encryption using mutual TLS, and “automatically turns any existing Consul cluster into a service mesh solution.”
Microsoft Releases Azure Service Fabric Mesh as a Public Preview
Service Fabric now has a relative in the cloud – Azure Service Fabric Mesh, a fully managed service in Azure that will enable developers to deploy and operate containerised applications. This service is now publicly in preview after its initial private preview debut during Build 2018 last May.
QCon NY: Matt Klein on Lyft Embracing Service Mesh Architecture
Matt Klein from Lyft spoke at QCon New York 2018 Conference about Envoy service mesh architecture. Facing the operational difficulties with the initial microservice deployment, Lyft team migrated to using service mesh.
StackPointCloud Enhances Istio and Kubernetes Functionality in Cloud-Native Management Platform
StackPointCloud, provider of a cloud-native management platform for Istio and Kubernetes, has added a series of tools to help enterprises deploy and use microservices and containers. Users can now manage Istio service meshes across Kubernetes clusters using their preferred cloud providers and StackPointCloud has partnered with Packet Host to help customers use ARM with their Kubernetes clusters.
Cilium 1.0.0-rc4 Released: Transparently Secure Container Network Connectivity Utilising Linux BPF
Cilium is open source software for transparently securing the network connectivity. Cilium 1.0.0-rc4 has recently been released, which includes: the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)-hosted Envoy configured as the default HTTP/gRPC proxy; the addition of a simple health overview for connectivity and other errors; and an improved scalable kvstore interaction layer.
Q&A on Istio, Microservices and Kubernetes with Lachie Evenson of Microsoft from Kubecon 2017
InfoQ caught up with Lachie Evenson, program manager at Microsoft, who delivered an introductory talk on the Istio platform at Kubecon. In addition to Istio, he talked about microservices, Kubernetes and how it's relevant to enterprise developers and architects.
Microservices Resiliency and Fault Tolerance Using Istio and Kubernetes
Animesh Singh and Tommy Li from IBM spoke at the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 Conference about the microservices resiliency and fault tolerance leveraging Istio framework. They also showed how to configure and use circuit breakers and other resiliency features using Istio.
Buoyant Releases New Kubernetes Service Mesh "Conduit" Written in Rust and Golang
Buoyant, the company behind the JVM-powered Linkerd service mesh, has released “Conduit”, a new experimental Kubernetes-specific service mesh, with the proxy data plane written in Rust and the control plane written in Golang. Conduit is not Linkerd 2.0. -- and targets a different use case -- and Buoyant has stated that they will continue to develop and provide commercial support for Linkerd.
Debugging Containerized Microservices: Idit Levine at QCon SF
At QCon San Francisco Idit Levine presented “Debugging Containerized Microservices”, and outlined the issues of debugging a distributed microservice-based system, and provided three potential approaches to overcome the inherent challenges. The talk also introduced a new open source microservices debugger that Levine is working on, Squash, which integrates with the VS Code IDE.
CNCF Adds Security, Service Mesh and Tracing Projects: Docker Notary, Lyft Envoy and Uber Jaeger
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced the addition of four new hosted projects over the past month: Docker’s Notary, The Update Framework (TUF), Lyft’s Envoy, and Uber’s Jaeger.
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