Decoding the Service Mesh landscape
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Compares Istio, Linkerd and Consul Connect by capability, install complexity and where each actually fits: Istio offers the richest features, multi-cluster and VM extension but heavy install and a past certificate expiry incident that required manual fixes; Linkerd is lightweight, CLI-driven, low-latency and auto-rotates certs every 24 hours but lacks some traffic policy and tracing; Consul Connect supports multi-datacenter, VMs and degraded Windows workloads, uses its own service discovery. Covers tools and benchmarks: uses service mesh interface, mystery, flagger and a Ken/Linkerd-funded benchmark that highlights P99 tail effects.
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