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by remram 844 days ago
Or IPVS... wait that's built into Kubernetes, it's kube-proxy.
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kircr 842 days ago
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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packetlost 844 days ago
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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