Why KVStoreMesh? Lessons Learned from Scale Testing Cluster Mesh with 50k Nodes Across... Ryan Drew
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 09/11/2023

Why KVStoreMesh? Lessons Learned from Scale Testing Cluster Mesh with 50k Nodes Across 255 Clusters - Ryan Drew, Isovalent

Cilium Cluster Mesh is a feature that connects workloads across clusters, but it has its limitations in the realm of scalability. This talk aims to boil a six-month project which explored and tested the scaling limitations of Cilium Cluster Mesh down into a half-hour, where you’ll review how Cluster Mesh syncs information between clusters, how this syncing broke in a scale test with 50k nodes across 255 clusters, how the scale test was architectured using kubemark to avoid breaking the bank, and how the 1.14 beta feature KVStoreMesh addresses Cluster Mesh’s scaling limitations to provide the opportunity for greater stability.