Rethinking Service Mesh with Application Traffic Management

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To put it another way, they don’t want a digger so that they can lay a foundation; they want a hole in the ground. How they get the hole is not nearly as important as the size and depth of the hole.

The most important element of cloud native applications is the “last mile” delivery of application traffic to end users, whether those users are human customers, servers or IoT devices.

In the broader technology space outside of Kubernetes and service mesh, responsibility for last-mile delivery falls to application delivery controllers (ADCs), which is a multibillion-dollar industry with dozens of players.

While there are a variety of options available for transport networking in Kubernetes (think container network interfaces), there is little in the way of application traffic management for Layer 7.

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