Do I Need a Service Mesh? “Service mesh” is a red‑hot topic. It seems that every major container‑related conference last year included a “service mesh” track, and industry influencers everywhere are talking about the revolutionary benefits of this technology. However, as of early 2019, service mesh technology is still immature. Istio, the leading implementation, is not yet ready for general enterprise deployment and only a handful of successful in‑production deployments are running. Other service mesh implementations also exist, but are not getting the massive mindshare the industry pundits say that service mesh deserves. How do we reconcile this mismatch? On the one hand, we hear “you need a service mesh”, and on the other hand, organizations have been running applications successfully on container platforms for years without one. Getting Started with Kubernetes Service mesh is a milestone on your journey, [ more… ]