Kong / Service Mesh 101

In this video, @ViktorGamov illustrates the differences between an API gateway and service mesh — and when to use one or the other pragmatically and objectively. He also discuss the similarities and differences between the communication layer provided by gateways, service mesh and Apache Kafka. Finally, you will learn a few ways to use Apache Kafka within a service mesh architecture.

Watch the full recording from Kong Summit 2021 here: https://konghq.com/videos/proxies-gateways-and-meshes

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0:08 From Proxy to Gateway
4:43 Road to Service Mesh
11:00 What About Apache Kafka?
15:55 Let's Talk Patterns
19:35 Conclusion

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-Learn more about Kong Gateway: https://konghq.com/kong/
-Learn more about Kuma: https://kuma.io/
-Follow along and grab the links in the blog version: https://konghq.com/blog/apache-kafka-api-gateway/
-Watch more recordings from Kong Summit 2021 here: https://konghq.com/kong-summit/2021-videos

#Kafka #APIgateway #ServiceMesh #KongGateway #KumaMesh #KongSummit

In this video, @ViktorGamov explains how @Istio Ingress Gateway works and demos how to use it.

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0:00 Cold Open
0:22 Intro
0:33 What Is Ingress?
1:48 Demo: Istio Ingress Gateway
2:03 Install Istio
2:45 Deploy Quotes Services
3:50 Enable Istio Ingress Gateway
5:25 Enable Virtual Services
7:30 About a New Gateway Spec

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- Demo: https://github.com/Kong/demo-scene/tree/main/kong-builders/12-01-2021
- Kong Builders: https://youtu.be/l5YdWrLlpDA
- Gateway spec https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller/blob/main/keps/0002-kong-gateway-api.md
- Follow Kong's progress implementing Gateway spec https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller/milestone/21

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🐦 https://gamov.dev/twitter
📧 https://gamov.dev/telegram
🔴 https://gamov.dev/youtube

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⭐ https://github.com/Kong/kong
🐦 https://twitter.com/thekonginc
🌎 https://konghq.com/community/
🍻 https://www.meetup.com/pro/kong
❓ ️https://discuss.konghq.com/
💯 https://konghq.com/kong-champions/

#Istio #IstioIngress #IstioGateway #ServiceMesh #APIGateway #IngressController #Kubernetes

In this Kongcast episode, Scott Lowe, principal field engineer at Kong, takes us back to basics by answering what a service mesh does and when to use a service mesh, among other common mesh-related questions.

Download Kuma to try it out: https://kuma.io/

Join the Kuma community (Slack): https://kuma.io/community/

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0:00 Kongcast Show Intro
0:28 Welcome, Scott!
0:40 What Is a Service Mesh?
1:42 API Gateway vs. Service Mesh
3:03 Service Mesh vs. Other Networking Tools
5:36 Benefits of a Service Mesh
7:46 Service Mesh vs. Other Approaches
8:58 What Functionality Sits in Service Mesh Layer?
11:03 Demo: Traffic Permissions With Kuma Service Mesh
17:20 Thanks for Joining, Scott!
17:44 Kongcast Show Outro

▬▬▬▬▬▬ ABOUT KONGCAST ▬▬▬▬▬▬
Hosted by @ViktorGamov and Kaitlyn Barnard, we interview software developers and technology leaders at the top of their game every other week. We’ll also give you the tools, tactics and strategies you need to take your distributed architectures to the next level. Kongcast goes beyond the buzzwords and dissects real-life applications and success stories so that you can tackle your biggest connectivity challenges.

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⭐ https://github.com/Kong/kong
🐦 https://twitter.com/thekonginc
🌎 https://konghq.com/community/
🍻 https://www.meetup.com/pro/kong
❓ ️https://discuss.konghq.com/
💯 https://konghq.com/kong-champions/

#ServiceMesh #KumaMesh #TrafficPermissions #APIs #Kongcast

Observability is catching on these days as the de-facto way to provide visibility into essential aspects of systems. It would be unwise for you not to leverage it with Kuma service mesh — the place that allows your services to communicate with the rest of the world. However, many observability solutions restrict themselves to the works: simple metric collection that provides them with dashboards. Expecting users to simply sit on their chairs and look at those metrics all day long is an invitation to failure, as we know that one can only do so much when they get tired and bored.

This talk will change the status quo and show how you can work smart by combining the flexibility of Kuma with the power of the Elastic Stack to ingest, store and analyze massive amounts of data. Join to learn how to collect metrics from Kuma via Prometheus, bring these metrics into @Elastic search using Metricbeat and create machine learning jobs to look for anomalies that can alert you when something interesting happens.

Watch the full recording from Kong Summit 2021 here: https://konghq.com/videos/work-smarter-not-harder

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0:00 Intro
2:30 Modern Observability
3:20 Enabling Metrics, Logs and Tracing on Kuma
4:28 Loading Metrics from Kuma to Elastic
6:46 Using Elastic Metricbeat
7:58 Using the OpenTelemetry Collector

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-Learn more about Kuma: https://kuma.io/
-Learn more about Elastic: https://www.elastic.co/
-Follow along and grab the links in the blog version: https://konghq.com/blog/o11y/
-Watch more recordings from Kong Summit 2021 here: https://konghq.com/kong-summit/2021-videos

#011y #ServiceMesh #Elastic #Metricbeat #KumaMesh #KongSummit

Envoy is a key part of a number of service meshes currently on the market, including Istio and the Kuma CNCF Sandbox project. As such, it is often helpful to better understand how Envoy is configured to operate as a data plane in a service mesh. In this session, you’ll learn about the basics of Envoy configuration, like listeners, filters, clusters, and endpoints.

Speaker: Scott Lowe
Scott Lowe is a well-known author, blogger, speaker, podcaster (host of the Full Stack Journey podcast), and a 25+ year veteran of the IT industry. Scott has held a variety of roles over the course of his career, ranging from entry-level desktop support to CTO for a start-up. He’s currently a principal field engineer at Kong, focused on helping customers solve challenges with cloud connectivity through service mesh and related technologies. He has authored a number of technical books over the course of his career, and shares technical content regularly on his blog at https://blog.scottlowe.org. You can follow Scott on Twitter at @scott_lowe.

#servicemesh #Envoy #Kongmesh #kuma

Slide deck with links to additional resources: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18hH9cI6J9b7jhzkMXJZkNTLA4dkDVNJp/view?usp=sharing

Learn how Kuma, an open source service mesh, and Kong Mesh for enterprise allow you to use ANY API gateway as a "doorway" into the service mesh using "Gateway Mode." Try Kuma for free: https://kuma.io/