DevOps, SRE & Cloud

Service Mesh & Gateway API

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  • What is a service mesh, and what does it give you that you'd otherwise have to build into each application? Junior level
  • You run a sidecar-based service mesh across a large fleet and want to move to a sidecarless model like Istio ambient. How do you reason about whether it's worth it and how you'd migrate?Go Pro Senior level
  • You want canary releases driven by the mesh and Gateway API, with automatic rollback. Walk me through how you'd wire that up and the failure mode you'd design against.Go Pro Senior level
  • How does the Kubernetes Gateway API differ from the older Ingress resource, and why is the ecosystem moving to it?Go Pro Mid level
  • What does a service mesh give you that an ingress or API gateway doesn't, and how does the Gateway API now express mesh (east-west) traffic?Go Pro Mid level
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