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by olix0r 3119 days ago
Like Linkerd, Envoy is a proxy that can be used used to build a service mesh. Conduit is a service mesh that includes a proxy.

So, yes, Conduit uses something that competes with Envoy ;) But I would not say that Conduit and Envoy are equivalent things.
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gmiranda23 3119 days ago
A service mesh needs a data plane (e.g. Envoy) and a control plane (e.g. Istio). Conduit has both in one product.
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politician 3119 days ago
Istio runs on Envoy; I'm not sure how Conduit is different from Istio.

https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/load-balan...

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otterley 3119 days ago
But how is Conduit better than the combined products? Doing two things poorly is worse than doing one thing well. (I'm not suggesting that Conduit does anything poorly, but it's not clear how it's superior in any way to any competing implementation.)
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tybit 3119 days ago
What they are presumably going for is ease of use, Istio uses a pluggable service mesh with Envoy being the most common one, and Linkerd being one of the alternatives.

I'm guessing they think Conduit can bring value by being an intergated solution out of the box, and I'm excited to see if they can deliver on that.

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