Articles about Service mesh

As organizations embrace cloud-native development, they are building new types of applications and microservices that are easier to scale and add more business value.

But the growing adoption of microservices has introduced new security risks because microservices and modern applications contain more 'pieces' that increase the attack surface.

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The number of use cases for Kubernetes is expanding as an increasing number of enterprises across a wide array of industries are adopting it as their platform of choice. However, this also expands the enterprise attack surface and business risk as a result.

We spoke to William, Morgan CEO of Buoyant, about how CISOs are coming face-to-face with the insecurity that can arise from managing Kubernetes platforms. They are beginning to see the risks that can unfold as well as how a service mesh can support a security stack.

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New research shows that 85 percent of companies are modernizing their applications to a microservices architecture.

The study from Solo.io and ClearPath Strategies reveals that 56 percent of organizations with at least half of their applications on a microservices architecture have faster development cycles, with daily or more frequent releases.

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Service mesh, in case you're unfamiliar with it, is an infrastructure layer that facilitates service-to-service communications between services or microservices via the use of a proxy.

This offers a number of benefits including secure connections and visibility of communications. The two main competitors in the service mesh space are Istio and Linkerd, and the market has recently seen a shift towards the latter. We spoke to William Morgan, CEO of Buoyant and co-creator of Linkerd, to find out more about service mesh and why the shift is happening.

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