Christian PostainITNEXTIstio 1.5 API Gateway with Gloo — Solo.ioGloo is an API Gateway built on Envoy Proxy that highly complements a service mesh like Istio with edge capabilities like transformations…2 min read·Apr 10, 2020--1--1
Christian PostainITNEXTDeclarative WebAssembly deployment for IstioAs outlined in the Istio 2020 trade winds blog and more recently announced with Istio 1.5, WebAssembly (Wasm) is now an (alpha) option for…4 min read·Mar 16, 2020----
Christian PostainITNEXTIstio as an Example of When Not to Do MicroservicesI’ve been pretty invested in helping organizations with their cloud-native journeys for the last five years. Modernizing and improving a…7 min read·Jan 16, 2020--1--1
Christian PostainITNEXTService Mesh for the developer workflow, a seriesService mesh has largely been discussed from the perspective of architecture, SRE, and operations personas as it presents an interesting…6 min read·Nov 5, 2019----
Christian PostainITNEXTChallenges of adopting service mesh in enterprise organizationsStart with an answer of “no”. If you’re just getting started with microservices and a handful of services, make sure you have the…5 min read·Oct 22, 2019----
Christian PostainITNEXTGetting started with a service mesh starts with a GatewayGetting started with a service mesh starts with a Gateway4 min read·Aug 30, 2019----
Christian PostainITNEXTRunning Envoy API Gateways on Kubernetes or Consul or bothThe industry has converged on Envoy Proxy as a de-facto data plane proxy for L7 networking. You will find Envoy running as the data plane…4 min read·Aug 16, 2019----
Christian PostainITNEXTA decentralized approach to API Gateways for OpenShift on your way to service meshI meet with a lot of customers trying to solve service-to-service communication challenges in their cloud-native architectures. My…7 min read·Aug 9, 2019----
Christian PostainITNEXTThe need for a standard, service mesh APIService mesh helps solve application-networking challenges when going toward a cloud-native architecture, specifically one that favors…4 min read·May 18, 2019----
Christian PostainITNEXTIstio the Easy WayI’m currently writing the book, Istio in Action for Manning Publications and the goal of the book is to help people understand and get the…5 min read·Apr 23, 2019----