Panel Discussion - The Future of Service Mesh: Is eBPF a Silver Lining or a Silver Bullet
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 19/05/2022

Panel Discussion-The Future of Service Mesh: Is eBPF a Silver Lining or a Silver Bullet- Moderated by Craig Box, Google; Thomas Graf, Isovalent; Idit Levine, Solo.io, Vik Gamov, Kong & William Morgan, Buoyant

Service mesh implementations normally take one of two forms: a proxy per node, or a proxy per workload (the so-called "sidecar"). Linkerd went from A to B. Cilium is suggesting we can go from B to A. Is eBPF a savior, or are we hyper-optimizing a tiny piece of the datapath? And what else might the future of service mesh hold?