Elevator Pitch
Like ‘em or not, right or wrong, microservices are a hot topic. The technologies and architecture is maturing rapidly, and this talk introduces some of the latest goodness: Istio. A sidecar container model that brings “Service Mesh” to the kubernetes and microservices world.
Description
Microservice Architecture means a lot of ‘things’ you have to prepare and account for. Just to rattle off some concepts (buzzwords): Load balancing, routing, circuit breakers, Canary and Blue/Green deployments, pool ejection, tracing, monitoring, chaos engineering, dark launches STAHP. JUST STAHP!
To account for any (or all) of this ‘stuff’, you have historically had to include several libraries in your code and write code to support those libraries. But aren’t micro services supposed to be small … micro, even?
Enter Istio and sidecar containers and the Service Mesh. Implement all of the above without changing your code. Move these operational concerns away from developers and into the domain of the operations people. Go home Friday at 5.
This session – valuable for both developers and those in operations – will introduce Istio and show some of its capabilities, giving you the information you need to start using the next generation of microservice tools.
Notes
This, and open source serverless (OpenWhisk), is a BIG DEAL at Red Hat, and we’re telling the world about it. Our strategy is not to sell Red Hat; we take the long game, knowing that the larger the pie, the more we all gain from it.