I see people writing this off already in the comments. Probably people who are knee deep in k8s and already have their favorites.<p>For the 20 year data center guy getting reborn in the cloud, walking down the cereal aisle of service mesh offerings, nginx is going to look like a warm blanket of familiarity.
So this is to compete with Envoy? If Nginx can solve the documentation and the "why the hell do I need this" problem, it might be worth looking into.
Everyone is talking Istio/Envoy but what's up with HAProxy? Last I looked(about a year or so ago) they were making huge advancements in platform at every level and in particular extensibility. It looked all open source too.
This is very much too little too late. Hopefully soon we’ll have the WASM sandbox hitting master in Envoy and that’s going to enable a lot of really cool use cases like hot deploying custom filters into your side cars.<p><a href="https://istio.io/latest/blog/2020/wasm-announce/" rel="nofollow">https://istio.io/latest/blog/2020/wasm-announce/</a>
I won't trust Nginx until I can understand its source code. It has to be one of the largest most complex mostly undocumented, uncommented pieces of code in common use. There could be demons in there and no one would know.
How does this compare to Istio? On a high level it seems to claim exactly the same features:<p>- Envoy-like sidecar proxy based deployment model<p>- mutual TLS<p>- traffic mgmt with rate limiting, circuit breakers<p>- traffic monitoring/visualization with Grafana, OpenTracing<p>- hybrid deployments for non-container support
i started to use Linkerd and its way too cool :D Is there any reason to choose Nginx service mesh over linkerd which is already secure , supported by CNF.