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Re:K8s Service Meshes: The Bill Comes Due by packetlost on Saturday March 02, 2024 @11:29AM (#39573605)
So like a DNS SRV record with multiple entries. Or Anycast, if you're being fancy
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Re:K8s Service Meshes: The Bill Comes Due by remram on Saturday March 02, 2024 @11:50AM (#39573767)
Or IPVS... wait that's built into Kubernetes, it's kube-proxy.
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Re:K8s Service Meshes: The Bill Comes Due by packetlost on Saturday March 02, 2024 @11:53AM (#39573793)
Right? Like, I really don't understand the problem that service mesh solves that isn't already solved by more standardized technologies
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Re:K8s Service Meshes: The Bill Comes Due by kircr on Sunday March 03, 2024 @12:52PM (#39582623)
kube-proxy operates at L3/L4 while service meshes generally operate at L7 so it can load balance on a per HTTP request basis. Particularly useful for long lived connections commonly used in gRPC and others.
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