Feb 4, 2021 Offloading Authentication and Authorization from Application Code to a Service Mesh In an upcoming National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) special publication Read more
Jan 21, 2021 Introduction to Service Mesh Architecture What is a service mesh? A service mesh is a relatively simple concept, consisting of a bunch of network proxies paired with each service in an applica Read more
Jan 19, 2021 Istio 1.8: A Virtual Machine Integration Odyssey In this article, I’ll give you an overview of Istio‘s history of virtual machine integration support. In particular, the introduction of the smart DNS Read more
Jan 18, 2021 What’s new in Envoy 1.17 Release: v2 xDS API is deprecated Envoy Proxy has announced the release of 1.17. The new version released on Jan. 11, 2021 brought a breaking change – v2 API is deprecated. Read more
Jan 6, 2021 What is Apache SkyWalking? Observing the Heterogenous Stack at Scale The observability problem for modern DevOps is familiar – As enterprises move to microservices, containerization, multi-language RPC frameworks Read more
Jan 3, 2021 Trying out Istio’s DNS Proxy You may have heard that DNS functionality was added in Istio 1.8, but you might not have thought about the impact it has. It solves some key issues th Read more
Dec 21, 2020 Istio 1.8 – A smart DNS proxy takes support for virtual machines a step further 1.8 is the last version of Istio to be released in 2020, it keeps following the trade winds and listen to the users Read more
Dec 2, 2020 Envoy 101: File-based dynamic configurations One of Envoy’s many powers is traffic routing and load balancing. For any dynamic environment that’s subject to regular changes Read more
Dec 2, 2020 Observe Service Mesh with SkyWalking and Envoy Access Log Service If you are looking for a more efficient solution to observe your service mesh instead of using a Mixer-based solution, this is exactly what you need. Read more