Guidance for Building a Control Plane for Envoy – Domain Specific Configuration API

Establishing your control-plane interaction points and API surface Once you’ve thought through what components might make up your control-plane architecture…

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Guidance for Building a Control Plane for Envoy – Identify Components

Identify which components you need for your control plane As the spectrum of operating environments varies wildly, so too could…

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Guidance for Building a Control Plane to Manage Envoy Proxy at the edge, as a gateway, or in a mesh

Envoy has become a popular networking component as of late. Matt Klein wrote a blog a couple years back talking…

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Exposing microservices running in AWS EKS with a microservices/API gateway like Solo Gloo

So you’ve decided to run your Kubernetes workloads in AWS. As we’ve seen before setting up AWS EKS requires a…

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API Gateways Are Going Through an Identity Crisis

API Gateways are going through a bit of an identity crisis these days. Are they centralized, shared resources that facilitate…

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Be as serverless as you can, but not more than that

No doubt, if you’ve been paying attention to technology trends, you’ve seen the rise in interest of “serverless”. In some…

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Application Safety and Correctness Cannot Be Offloaded to Istio or Any Service Mesh

I’ve recently started giving a talk about the evolution of integration and the adoption of service mesh, specifically Istio. I’ve…

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How a Service Mesh Can Help With Microservices Security

I see lots of customers moving to microservices, (whether they should or not is a topic for a different post),…

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Advanced Traffic-shadowing Patterns for Microservices With Istio Service Mesh

Microservices allow us to go faster and reduce our time to value. However, we cannot just naively move fast and…

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