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Now imagine you have something that has the complexity and change volume of a distributed control plane bringing together load-balancing, service advertisement,

Now imagine you have something that has the complexity and change volume of a distributed control plane bringing together load-balancing, service advertisement, public key infrastructure, and software defined networking, and then try to imagine running it at the same reliability as your DNS. Also: proxies, proxies everywhere, as far as the eye can see.

zidad 4y ago
And in addition to that, all of those immediately becoming the same centralized single point of failure. What could possibly go wrong (on high load)? ;p
- jspdown 4y ago
  In most implementations this is not the case. Service Meshes tend to either follow a sidecar or a DaemonSet approach. You don't have a single proxy, people usually complain about the exact opposite.
darkwater 4y ago
This is the production ready part that people will usually discover later on their own skin...