Cilium launches eBPF-powered Kubernetes service mesh
Cilium has added a service mesh to the latest release of its open source network connectivity software, Cilium 1.12, as it looks to give developers more flexibility over how they control, monitor, and load balance their cloud-native applications.Despite all of their utility, service meshes are also notoriously complex to operate at enterprise scale, leading to something of an arms race to find the right balance between simplicity and performance, with existing solutions like Linkerd, Istio, Microsoft’s Open Service Mesh (OSM), and many others all vying for developers’ attention.To read this article in full, please click here
Cilium has added a service mesh to the latest release of its open source network connectivity software, Cilium 1.12, as it looks to give developers more flexibility over how they control, monitor, and load balance their cloud-native applications.
Despite all of their utility, service meshes are also notoriously complex to operate at enterprise scale, leading to something of an arms race to find the right balance between simplicity and performance, with existing solutions like Linkerd, Istio, Microsoft’s Open Service Mesh (OSM), and many others all vying for developers’ attention.