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MeshMark: the Cloud Native Value Measurement demonstrated in Meshery at ServiceMeshCon EU 2022.

Learn more: https://layer5.io/blog/meshery/meshmark-cloud-native-value-measurement

A discussion on extending Service Mesh Performance benchmarking to the CNCF Community Infrastructure Lab.

Proposal - https://docs.google.com/document/d/16b-cWkyhDwumK8afd0YiQtZUe2zc5TfQ_9g7dQ9q8jQ/edit?usp=sharing
Issue - https://github.com/cncf/cluster/issues/115

CNCF TAG Network - https://github.com/cncf/tag-network
CNCF Service Mesh WG - https://github.com/cncf/tag-network/tree/master/service-mesh-wg
Service Mesh Performance - https://smp-spec.io

Service Mesh WG Topics:
- GetNighthawk: Adaptive Load Control Deep-dive with Jakub Sobon, Google
- SMP: Finalize benchmarking research and publishing plan
- SMP & Meshery: Specification review in contrast w/Prometheus Node Exporter metrics

Service Mesh Performance Community Meeting - Sept 30th, 2021

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Service Mesh Performance Community Meeting - Sept 16th, 2021

Agenda:
- [Zain] Review of Nighthawk’s Prometheus integration
- [Navendu] Share Nighthawk binaries and gRPC stub
- Creating an outline for Nighthawk documentation and how Meshery integrates with it Document Nighthawk architecture and internals.
- [Rudraksh] Moving Nighthawk out of Meshery’s container
- [Anirban] Adaptive Load Controller in Nighthawk
- Slides being published on GetNighthawk.
- [Lee] Service Mesh Performance @ KubeCon
- [Lee] Goal: Service Mesh Performance Benchmarks
- [Lee] Clarifying Service Mesh Working Group, GetNighthawk, Service Mesh Performance

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Service Mesh Performance Community Meeting - Sept 2nd, 2021

Agenda:
- Explanation of adaptive load controller as a capability by Otto van der Schaaf
- Distributed performance testing and adaptive load control with Nighthawk by Navendu (Slides - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gAHLDSMpWQoYEh8VP38xyrD8CVb4-L-6HXxFkSzVJoo/edit#)
- GetNighthawk architecture review by Rudraksh - (Slides - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1arewKYZuhkv7NGRZKx0w-7bQdS-ho-YSYJF0X32qfHo/edit#slide=id.g89c4ba9d58_2_6)

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Service Mesh Performance Community Meeting - Aug 19th, 2021

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Service Mesh Performance Community Meeting - Aug 05th, 2021

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Service Mesh Performance Community Meeting - July 22nd, 2021

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Presentation of SMI Metrics and Linkerd demo. Discussion of Service Mesh Interface Metric and Traffic Specs. Discussion of scope of Service Mesh Performance.

Don’t miss out! Join us at our upcoming events: EnvoyCon Virtual on October 15 and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 Virtual from November 17-20. Learn more at https://kubecon.io. The conferences feature presentations from developers and end users of Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and all of the other CNCF-hosted projects.

CNCF SIG Network Intro & Deep-Dive - Lee Calcote, Layer5

“It’s the network!” is the cry of every system administrator, every developer. With the increased prevalence of microservice-based distributed systems, it’s true - networking as a discipline has never been more critical in the efficient operation of cloud native deployments. Networking primitives, including load balancing, observability, authentication, authorization, policy, rate limiting, QoS, mesh networks, legacy infrastructure bridging, and so on are now receiving substantial development and investment throughout the industry and are the subject of focus of the CNCF Network SIG. Join this talk for an intro to the SIG, its charter and a deeper discussion of current cloud native networking topics being advanced in this SIG. Current CNCF projects in-scope: CNI, CoreDNS, Envoy, gRPC, Linkerd, NATS, Network Service Mesh.

https://sched.co/alkB

So great to have @mt_lattices and @PrateekSahu22 of @UTAustin on our first SMPS WG call.

Join us for Kubernetes Forums Seoul, Sydney, Bengaluru and Delhi - learn more at kubecon.io

Don't miss KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2020 events in Amsterdam March 30 - April 2, Shanghai July 28-30 and Boston November 17-20! Learn more at kubecon.io. The conference features presentations from developers and end users of Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and all of the other CNCF-hosted projects

Service Meshes: At What Cost? - Lee Calcote, Layer5 & Girish Ranganathan, SolarWinds

“What is the performance impact that a service mesh has?" "What overhead does being on the mesh incur?” By far, this is the most common questioned by engineers coming to with the value of functionality provided by a service mesh. Generally, this question goes unanswered. We will share methodology and results of performance testing research done in collaboration with a university, through the lens an open source service mesh benchmark tool - a tool used to provide a common benchmark across service meshes (their control planes, like Istio) and modern proxies (their data planes, like Envoy). Over 10 service meshes projects will be reviewed. In addition to performance, we’ll take an in-depth look at the landscape of service meshes, characterize and contrast their functionality as well as their data plane and control plane architectures.

https://sched.co/MPf7