Managed service mesh as a distributed cloud service
Channel: Istio
Date: 2022-05-14

Presented by Gergő Huszty & Tong Li at IstioCon 2022.

The external control plane deployment model in Istio enabled some new use cases for mesh management. The ownership and the management of the control plane may belong to a completely different entity, other than the end-user. Leveraging this new model, a cloud vendor can create a cost effective, managed, multi-tenant mesh control plane, safely isolated from the mesh clusters. Behind the scene, the vendor can manage/scale/update the service with or without the user’s intervention.

In this talk we describe such a managed solution, focusing on the extra challenges that the basic Istio external control plane setup does not solve.