MRA AMA Part 6: Service-Mesh Models

Service meshes are an emerging standard for microservices development and deployment. Popular architectures such as Istio and linkerd use a service mesh approach, including attributes such as load‑balancing capability, support for authorization and authentication, and use of the circuit breaker model for resilience.

In this webinar, two of the models in the NGINX Microservices Reference Architecture, the Router Mesh Model and the Fabric Model, are explored as successively more capable implementations of a service‑mesh architecture. We compare the MRA models to Istio, linkerd, and other service‑mesh architectures, and show how the NGINX Kubernetes Ingress Controller allows direct use of these other architectures. Our experts also answer attendee questions.