Service Mesh Overview and Resource Collection

Service mesh, translated as "服务网格", is a hot concept in microservices and cloud‑native architectures. This article compiles a comprehensive list of high‑quality resources to help readers progress from beginner to advanced understanding.

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WHAT’S A SERVICE MESH? AND WHY DO I NEED ONE? https://buoyant.io/2017/04/25/whats-a-service-mesh-and-why-do-i-need-one/ Chinese translation: http://www.weixinnu.com/article/59975a92c917057d58f228f5 https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/7vGM0m_pkFNk49CGresE9g

什么是Service Mesh（服务网格）

https://jimmysong.io/posts/what-is-a-service-mesh/

Pattern: Service Mesh http://philcalcado.com/2017/08/03/pattern_service_mesh.html Chinese translation: http://www.infoq.com/cn/articles/pattern-service-mesh

What is Istio? It’s a service mesh. Great. What’s a service mesh? https://www.mirantis.com/blog/what-is-istio-its-a-service-mesh-whats-a-service-mesh https://www.slideshare.net/dbryant_uk/oreilly-2017-introduction-to-service-meshes

Google、IBM和Lyft开源的微服务管理框架Istio简介 http://dockone.io/article/2397

Service Mesh：下一代微服务？ http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/5XIGlqZ20zMSf0EB1XPRvg

万字解读:Service Mesh服务网格新生代--Istio https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/29586032

再谈 Kubernetes，微服务以及 Service Mesh http://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1579758778464216551

系列文章：A SERVICE MESH FOR KUBERNETES 1. Top-line service metrics https://buoyant.io/a-service-mesh-for-kubernetes-part-i-top-line-service-metrics/ 2. Pods are great, until they’re not https://buoyant.io/a-service-mesh-for-kubernetes-part-ii-pods-are-great-until-theyre-not/ 3. Encrypting all the things https://buoyant.io/a-service-mesh-for-kubernetes-part-iii-encrypting-all-the-things/ 4. Continuous deployment via traffic shifting 5. Dogfood environments, ingress, and edge routing 6. Staging microservices without the tears 7. Distributed tracing made easy 8. Linkerd as an ingress controller 9. gRPC for fun and profit 10. The Service Mesh API 11. Egress (this article) https://buoyant.io/2017/06/20/a-service-mesh-for-kubernetes-part-xi-egress/ 12. Retry budgets, deadline propagation, and failing gracefully 13. Autoscaling by top-line metrics Partial Chinese translations: Kubernetes的service mesh——第一部分：Service的重要指标 http://blog.csdn.net/hty46565/article/details/78179005 Kubernetes的service mesh——第二部分：以DaemonSet方式运行linkerd http://blog.csdn.net/hty46565/article/details/78188434 Kubernetes的service mesh——第三部分：将一切加密 http://blog.csdn.net/hty46565/article/details/78210626

Kubernetes与云原生应用概览 http://www.infoq.com/cn/articles/kubernetes-and-cloud-native-app-overview

NGINX 发布微服务平台、OpenShift Ingress Controller 和Service Mesh预览版 http://www.infoq.com/cn/news/2017/09/nginx-platform-service-mesh

Istio – https://istio.io/ Open‑source microservice management platform supported by IBM, Google, Lyft; provides security, works with Kubernetes, Mesos, and relies on Envoy.

Linkerd – https://linkerd.io/ Developed by Buoyant, based on Twitter’s Finagle, CNCF‑endorsed, widely used in production.

Envoy – https://www.envoyproxy.io/ Layer‑7 proxy and communication bus developed by Lyft; supports HTTP routing, TLS, gRPC, service discovery, health checks.

A continuously updated Service Mesh awesome list – https://github.com/ServicemeshCN/awesome-servicemesh

Istio Chinese documentation (ongoing translation) – http://istio.doczh.cn/