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Serverless computing comes into play with the promise of freeing teams from having to deal with operational tasks. The general idea with Serverless computing is to be able to provide the service code, together with some minimal configuration, and the provider will take care of the operational aspects. Most cloud providers have serverless offerings and there are also serverless options on top of Kubernetes that use some of the patterns mentioned before. Some examples are Knative, Kubeless, or OpenFaaS.
A Service Mesh is a dedicated and configurable infrastructure layer with the intent of handling network-based communication between services. Istio and Linkerd are two examples of implementations. Most implementations usually have two main components: the Control plane and the Data plane. The Control plane manages and configures the proxies that compose the Data plane. Those Data plane proxies are deployed as sidecars and can provide functionalities like service discovery, retries, timeouts, circuit breaking, fault injection, and much more.
With the advent and popularization of containers, technologies emerged to tame the ever-growing operations demand, offering rich sets of features. Enter Kubernetes, the most popular container platform today, supported by every major cloud provider, offering:
A Service Mesh is a dedicated and configurable infrastructure layer with the intent of handling network-based communication between services. Istio and Linkerd are two examples of implementations. Most implementations usually have two main components: the Control plane and the Data plane. The Control plane manages and configures the proxies that compose the Data plane. Those Data plane proxies are deployed as sidecars and can provide functionalities like service discovery, retries, timeouts, circuit breaking, fault injection, and much more.
Projects like Dapr aim to be the Holy Grail for application development. Their goal is to help developers build resilient services that run in the cloud. By codifying best practices for building microservices into independent and agnostic building blocks that can be used only if necessary, they allow services to be built using any language or framework and run anywhere.