Presented at the CNCF Networking Working Group in March 2019. A project to provide apples-to-apples comparison of performance overhead induced by different service meshes. Recording - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_JwCc-kLMA

1. Benchmarking
Service Meshes
Lee Calcote
calcotestudios.com/talks
March 2019

2. layer5.io/meshery @lcalcote
Adopter’s Dilemma
Which service mesh to use? What’s the catch? Nothing’s free.
Playground
WHICH SERVICE MESH SHOULD I USE AND
HOW DO I GET STARTED?
Learn about the functionality of different service
meshes and visually manipulate mesh
configuration.
Performance Benchmark
WHAT OVERHEAD DOES BEING ON THE
SERVICE MESH INCUR?
Benchmark the performance of your application
across different service meshes and compare their
overhead.
@lcalcotelayer5.io/meshery

3. Meshery
a multi-service mesh performance
benchmark and playground

4. layer5.io/meshery @lcalcote
meshery
Service Mesh
Sample App
Service
Your App Service
Gateway /
Ingress
Gateway /
Egress
Grafana
Meshery
adapters
Meshery
adapters
meshery
adapters
Kube API
Platform
HTTP/
gRPC
HTTP
HTTP
Docker or Kubernetes
Architecture
Request Load
gRPC

5. Demo
5
● Deployment
○ Deployment of Meshery and sample app
● Configuration
○ Cluster, adapters and grafana
○ Configuration validation using Istio Vet
● Performance tests
○ View individual test result
○ Compare multiple tests (two)
○ Compare multiple tests (many)
● Benchmark Specification

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Side-by-side Performance
Istio Linkerd Consul Octarine
Results coming…
Upcoming presentations:
1. Container World
2. DockerCon
3. KubeCon EU
App Mesh?

7. layer5.io/meshery @lcalcote
A project and vendor-neutral specification for capturing details of:
1. Environment / Infrastructure
a. Number and size of nodes, orchestrator
2. Service mesh and its configuration
3. Service / application details
Bundled with test results.
See → github.com/layer5io/service-mesh-benchmark-spec
Service Mesh Benchmark Specification

8. layer5.io/meshery @lcalcote
Thanks to our Contributors!
Join in!
https://layer5.io/meshery
Weekly community meeting, minutes and recordings.
Aspen
Mesh
UT
Austin
Octarine
VMware SOFAMesh
Istio Linkerd
AT&T

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