[packetlost]

So like a DNS SRV record with multiple entries. Or Anycast, if you're being fancy

[remram]

Or IPVS... wait that's built into Kubernetes, it's kube-proxy.

[kircr]

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.

[packetlost]

Right? Like, I really don't understand the problem that service mesh solves that isn't already solved by more standardized technologies