Service mesh implementation and usage continues to gain momentum, but where is the technology headed? With new developments related to Wasm, eBPF, GraphQL, and more playing an increasingly important role in how service mesh works and what it can provide for teams and users, it’s important to understand what evolution in the space means for you.

1. The Future of Service Mesh
Christian Posta
VP, Global Field CTO

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CHRISTIAN POSTA
VP, Global Field CTO, Solo.io
@christianposta
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Istio in Action
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Idit Levine
Founding API gateway WG-Istio
Christian Posta
Founding community member,
Istio Steering Committee,
author Istio in Action
Lin Sun
Founding Istio project maintainer,
Technical Oversight Committee
(TOC), Steering Committee
Neeraj Poddar
Istio Steering and TOC member.
Co-founded Istio Product
Security Working Group.
Yuval Kohavi
Renowned security researcher,
Founding API Gateway WG-Istio,
Contributor Envoy
Ram Vennam
Founding Istio Steering
Committee member
Nick Nellis
First to run Istio in production,
current contributor and maintainer
Solo Istio/Envoy Community Leadership
Founded in 2017 by Idit Levine
Based in Cambridge, MA
with multiple locations around the globe
Industry leaders in application networking, service
mesh, and modern API gateway technologies
Open-Core, “Enterprise” Subscription model
Growing fast
with happy customers
Well Funded
350+%
bookings
growth y/y
98%+
renewal
rate
$171.5M
venture financing
$1 Billion
valuation
Overview
Gloo Application Networking Platform
Simplify your application networking with unified control,
reliability, observability, extensibility, and security
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We are leaders in application
networking, service mesh, and
modern API gateway technologies.
Abstract the network with service
mesh, modern gateways, eBPF,
GraphQL, and management tools to
improve developer experience,
provide Zero Trust Architecture, and
consistently apply traffic routing and
security policies wherever services
are deployed.
OUR VISION

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What is application networking?
Challenges
● Service discovery
● Load balancing
● Timeouts
● Retry / Budgets
● Circuit breaking
● Tracing, observability
● Secure transport
● Extension

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What is application networking?

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A modern approach

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Drive everything through GitOps!

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The Future of Service Mesh…
…happens in the data plane
…and on TOP of the control plane

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Extending the data plane

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Data plane as a spectrum
From “The Truth About the Service Mesh Data Plane”, November 2019
https://www.slideshare.net/ceposta/the-truth-about-the-service-mesh-data-plane

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Data plane is where the innovation continues to happen
● Web Assembly
● HTTP/3
● Universal Data Plane API
Extending the data plane
Optimizing the data plane

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Extending the data plane with GraphQL

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Extending the data plane

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Extending the data plane

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Optimizing the data plane

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Optimizing the data plane
• Offloading network setup to CNI
• eBPF for acceleration, unifying policy at multiple layers, rich metrics
• Resource overhead, usage, optimizations
• Feature isolation, extensibility
• Security granularity, blast radius
• Operational/upgrade impact

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Data plane: sidecar (service proxy)

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Data plane: shared proxy per node

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Data plane: shared proxy per service account (per node)

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Data plane: shared remote proxy with micro-sidecar

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On top of the control plane

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On top of the control plane

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User Clusters Public cloud
Compliance / DMZ

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User Clusters Public cloud
Compliance / DMZ

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User Clusters Public cloud
Compliance / DMZ

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Gloo Application Networking Platform

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Solo Istio/Envoy Community Leadership
Idit
Levine
Christian
Posta
Lin
Sun
Neeraj
Poddar
Yuval
Kohavi
Ram
Vennam
Nick
Nellis
“The team Solo has assembled
is incredible. They have deep
expertise with Envoy and
Istio, and they’re extremely
receptive to community
feedback. The strength of their
team gives us confidence in the
innovation and support they’re
able to provide.”
CURRENT CUSTOMER
Thank you!!
Reach out to us for guidance!
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