Panel Discussion - The Future of Service Mesh: Is eBPF a Silver Lining or a Silver Bullet
Panelat ServiceMeshCon Europe 2022 · on Tuesday, 2022-05-17· at 16:30· Pavilion 3 | Room D | Level 2 | Central Forum·
summary
Panelists debate concrete tradeoffs: eBPF gives in-kernel HTTP visibility with single-digit percent overhead and almost zero added latency versus a layer‑7 proxy whose visibility path shows 2–4x higher latency in benchmarks; prototypes combine eBPF for fast datapath telemetry with Envoy for retries and routing because pure eBPF cannot replay streams; options include per-node / per-namespace multi‑tenant proxy and Cilium’s native Envoy integration; several projects (Cilium, Linkerd, Kuma, Istio, an Envoy filter prototype) are tested in production‑scale experiments with mixed operational and debuggability results.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:15LinkerD History
- 3:03Google Sidecar
- 4:33Layer 7 Proxy
- 10:15Rust
- 15:10Audience Question
- 16:35Followup Question
- 17:33eBPF vs Celium
- 19:40eBPF vs Rust
- 22:50Network Processing
- 24:15Container Processing
- 25:26Hybrid Mesh
- 27:02Impact on end users
- 28:38Hybrid mode
- 31:39Questions
- 32:06Debugging with eBPF
- 32:39What about syslog dumps
- 33:16Adoption of Service Mesh
- 33:44What do we need to do
- 34:29What do we agree on
- 35:21Wrapup
- 36:04Whats Blocking Service Mesh Adoption
- 37:59Closing Thoughts
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