Sidecarless with eBPF or sidecar with Envoy proxy?
Channel: Istio
Date: 15/05/2022

Presented by Idit Levine at IstioCon 2022.
eBPF and service mesh both optimize the functionality around networking, observability, and security. Are they competing? Or complementary to each other? To what extent can eBPF play a role in a service mesh? How does the role of the service proxy change? In this talk, we will dig into the role of eBPF for a service mesh data plane and what are some of the tradeoffs in terms of features, resource overhead, feature isolation, security granularity and upgrade impact for various data-plane architectures: shared proxy vs shared proxy per node vs sidecar proxy vs shared proxy per service account etc.