Most service meshes use Envoy as a proxy and for good reasons:
1. It's fully open-source
2. It can be customised on-the-fly via an API
3. It can be extended
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Nginx has a service mesh too. Is it any good?
Let's find out.
Most service meshes use Envoy as a proxy and for good reasons:
1. It's fully open-source
2. It can be customised on-the-fly via an API
3. It can be extended
Is there a service mesh without Envoy? Of course!
The best example is @Linkerd that uses a custom proxy written in Rust.
Linkerd is smaller and more focussed but it is also slower to add features.
And now there's a new entry: @nginx
But isn't Nginx one of those products not fully open-source proxies?
Yes it is, but they made an exception.
When you run the Nginx Service Mesh you can use Nginx Plus (the paid product) as a proxy for free.
Great isn't it?
How does the meshwork?
There are four main components:
- The API
- SPIRE (cert authority)
- NATS (message broker)
- Nginx Plus as a proxy
Grafana, Prometheus and Zipkin are automatically installed too.
Ok, but how do you run it?
You can find my step-by-step instructions on how to get the mesh running locally on minikube.
https://t.co/xIlSn2Uy1e
If you install the bookshop demo apps, you can inspect the mesh metrics in grafana, Prometheus, and jaeger.
Now the real question, is it good?
Short answer: I don't know. More testing is required.
However, I collected some pros and cons.
Let's start with the "not so good" parts.
Here are some links that might be useful:
- https://t.co/OYwNPabcea
- https://t.co/Pv93RTtpkh
- https://t.co/xIlSn2Uy1e
How does Nginx Service Mesh compare with the other meshes?
F5 reached us @Learnk8s to help you answer that question.
You can find the comparison here https://t.co/o3mSjdQica
That's it!
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He was on his black Apollo mountain bike, fully dressed, wearing a helmet and carrying a backpack containing his laptop and 2 books with his name on them. He also had his mobile phone with him.
On the 27th of June. Noah's naked body was sadly discovered 950m inside a storm drain, between access points. This storm drain was accessible through an area completely unfamiliar to him, behind houses at Northwood Road. https://t.co/bpz3Rmc0wq
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Noah's bike was also found near a house, behind a car, in the same area. It had been there for more than 24 hours before a member of public who lived in the street said she read reports of a missing child and checked the bike and phoned the police.
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He was on his black Apollo mountain bike, fully dressed, wearing a helmet and carrying a backpack containing his laptop and 2 books with his name on them. He also had his mobile phone with him.
On the 27th of June. Noah's naked body was sadly discovered 950m inside a storm drain, between access points. This storm drain was accessible through an area completely unfamiliar to him, behind houses at Northwood Road. https://t.co/bpz3Rmc0wq
"Noah's body was found by specially trained police officers between two drain access points within a section of the tunnel running under the Translink access road," said Mr McCrisken."
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