Let's Untangle the Service Mesh

Dive deep into the world of service meshes in this 56-minute webinar presented by Dominik Tornow, Principal Engineer at Cisco. Explore the complexities of distributed systems, services, and service meshes through a systems modeling approach. Gain clear and concise answers to fundamental questions about service meshes, including their purpose, functionality, and inner workings. Examine the architecture of Linkerd, a popular CNCF service mesh. Learn about networking models, service models, and the Service Mesh Interface. Unravel the intricacies of service-to-service communication and discover how service meshes fit into the broader landscape of cloud-native computing.

Untangling the Service Mesh Dominik Tornow
Traditional Definition What is a Service Mesh?
A Service Mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for handling service to service communication
A Service Mesh is a set of user space proxies executing alongside your services and a set of management processes
Networking Model What is the Network?
Networking Model Summary
Service Model Definition
Service Model The Contract
Service Model Process to Process
Service Model Summary
Service Mesh Overview
Service Mesh Service Mesh Interface
Service Mesh Summary