Control Plane for Large Mesh in a Heterogeneous Environment
summary
Pinterest builds a homegrown control plane called Tower control plane that programs Envoy via the open source Go control plane, stores state in ZooKeeper storage, and runs per-host beacons delivering xDS over gRPC streams to envoy sidecars. Tower uses an actor/event-sourcing store, supports streaming delta updates, and achieves <2s endpoint propagation at scale. Deployment covers thousands of heterogeneous clusters, meshes five critical HDTV services so far, and uses staged rollouts via Jenkins/Spinnaker plus a CLI for fast experiments.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 2:35Objective 1: Unification and consistency
- 3:18Safety and velocity
- 3:40Secure
- 4:30Responsibility segregation
- 12:48Highlights & Performance
- 14:39Service Registration & Discovery
- 15:42Configuration Deployment
- 16:39Components
- 19:52Two workflows
- 21:34User Interface
- 23:48Collaboration
- 25:22Roll out
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