What Is Service Mesh and How to Get Started With It - Mirantis Labs Tech Talks

Explore the fundamentals of Service Mesh, its use cases, and implementation in this comprehensive tech talk. Dive into the concept of Service Mesh as a tool for enhancing application observability, security, and reliability at the platform layer. Learn about various open-source solutions, with a focus on Istio and Envoy. Gain practical insights through an extensive live demo on deploying Istio Service Mesh using Mirantis Lens, the Kubernetes IDE, and Mirantis Container Cloud. Discover how to leverage Service Mesh technology to improve your application infrastructure and get started with this powerful tool in your development workflow.

- Introductions & agenda
- What is Service Mesh & why should I use it?
- Common Service Mesh use cases
- Open source solutions for Service Mesh
- What is Istio?
- What is Envoy & what does it offer?
- What we'll be covering in the demo
- A few words about Mirantis Container Cloud
- A few words about Lens, the Kubernetes IDE
- Live Demo: Deploying Istio Service Mesh
- A look ahead to next week's talk
- Outro