On April 2, 2019, Amalgam Insights Research Fellow Tom Petrocelli published Technical Guide: A Service Mesh Primer, which serves as a vital starting point for technical architects and developer teams to understand the current trends in microservices and service mesh. This report provides enterprise architects, CTOs, and developer teams with the guidance they need to understand the microservices architecture, service mesh architecture, and OSI model context necessary to conceptualize service mesh technologies.
In this report, Amalgam Insights provides context in the following areas:
- Context for Service Mesh
- Networking within a Container Cluster
- What is a Service Mesh Design Pattern?
- The Three Pillars of Service Mesh Technology
- Service Mesh Architecture
- Data Proxy Design Patterns
- Deployment Models
This report also serves as an important starting point for Tom Petrocelli’s upcoming Market Guide on Service Mesh for Microservices, where he weighs in on key vendors including Istio, Linkerd, NGINX, A10, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, Red Hat Openshift. Stay tuned for this upcoming report due to publish in May in conjunction with KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 to find out how the top vendors in Service Mesh technology will affect the future of application and microservices development.
To download Petrocelli’s Technical Guide, currently free of charge until April 12, please click through to Amalgam Insights’ Technical Guide: A Service Mesh Primer