With the rise of cloud-native architectures built on containers distributed microservices, developers are encountering challenges with visibility, management, and control of these new applications. The Service Mesh concept was created to address and overcome these challenges. On the 15th episode of the Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by Mark Schweighardt, Director of Product Marketing in the Network & Security Business Unit (NSBU) of VMware. Together with Mike, we discuss about the Service Mesh concept, cloud-native applications, Istio/Envoy, and VMware's upcoming Service Mesh solution, VMware NSX Service Mesh. You can reach out to Mark via LinkedIn. Hope you enjoy the show. Feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@egirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech. Show notes

• 00:45 - Intro
• 02:30 - Where are we in the journey from monolithic to cloud native apps
• 06:00 - Why are the customers migrating to cloud native approach
• 11:00 - What's Service Mesh? What challenge does it solve?
• 15:30 - What are the main use cases for Service Mesh?
• 20:00 - Which industries will be adopting Service Mesh the fastest?
• 22:00 - Who are the stakeholders in a Service Mesh deployment, how will it change the life of an infrastructure engineer?
• 31:15 - What are Istio and Envoy, and what's the architecture like?
• 37:00 - What's VMware NSX Service Mesh, what added capabilities will it have on top of Istio?
• 42:00 - VMware NSX Service Mesh release timelines
• 44:30 - Useful resources, contact details and closing notes

Links

• Istio Project: https://istio.io/
• VMware NSX Service Mesh: https://pages.cloud.vmware.com/vmware-nsx-service-mesh
• VMware Blog on the VMware NSX Service Mesh announcement: https://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2018/12/nsx-service-mesh.html/