The gRPCRoute to Success: Idiomatically Routing and Balancing...- Richard Belleville & Arko Dasgupta
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 2024-03-26

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Unlike REST, gRPC connections are much more likely to be persistent and long-lived. This presents challenges when attempting to improve load balancing efficiency, especially in the face of scale-up and scale-down events. There is not much literature on how to solve this problem, resulting in bespoke and suboptimal solutions. In this talk, Arko Dasgupta from the Envoy team and Richard Belleville from the core gRPC team will show how to effectively manage the flow of gRPC traffic in a production Kubernetes cluster using the new GRPCRoute resource created by the Gateway API community.