What's the relationship between this and a service mesh like Istio? Is Service Directory just for external/public clients? Wouldn't most of the changes to service endpoints be hidden behind load balancers?<p>They mention Redis and MongoDB as examples of services that could be discovered through Service Directory, but those seem like they would traditionally be used by internal clients.
sounds pretty close to OSB [1][2]<p>So, does this replace or complement (open) service broker?<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcp-service-broker" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcp-service-broker</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.openservicebrokerapi.org" rel="nofollow">https://www.openservicebrokerapi.org</a>
“All your X in one place” is snake oil vendor lock-in dressed as convenience.<p>N.B. I have no opinion on Service Directory. It may be a great tool. I just object to the pitch in the headline