Description
Author: Tom Petrocelli
Title: SmartList Market Guide – Service Mesh: Building Out Microservices Networks
Key Stakeholders:
Platform engineers and managers, system architects, CTOs, DevOps team leaders, developers, operations managers, and network engineers.
Why It Matters:
As microservices architectures and container clusters are deployed in production, a service mesh will be a required component. Understanding technology, projects, and vendors is an essential part of the knowledge base for anyone involved in designing and implementing these new system architectures.
Top Takeaway:
The current market for service mesh technology and products is still evolving with no clear leader. While the unfortunate rivalry between Istio and Linkerd is a distraction, it has not kept the market from growing rapidly. That said, the vendor support for the Istio-Envoy combination has garnered support from major vendors and driven a growing ecosystem. Even if Istio-Envoy become the mainstream technology for service mesh, there will continue to be plenty of room for products that provide more functionality.
