ISTIO is control plane for service mesh. ISTIO by default uses Envoy as data plane (sidecar). But, there are efforts in NGINX community to use NGINX as the data plane for ISTIO.
Now coming to my question: Is the intention to use ISTIO control plane with NGINX sidecar? Or are you suggesting to use something else for control plane?My request is to provide flexibility for people to use whichever sidecar they prefer, but standardizing on ISTIO control plane is good in my view.
Mike Elliott , I understand from your meeting minutes, somebody did comparison between Envoy and NGINX with respect to CPU and memory. Can that be shared?
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Mike Elliott
Srinivasa Addepalli
Mike Elliott
NGINX is equivalent to Envoy.
ISTIO is control plane for service mesh. ISTIO by default uses Envoy as data plane (sidecar). But, there are efforts in NGINX community to use NGINX as the data plane for ISTIO.
Now coming to my question: Is the intention to use ISTIO control plane with NGINX sidecar? Or are you suggesting to use something else for control plane?My request is to provide flexibility for people to use whichever sidecar they prefer, but standardizing on ISTIO control plane is good in my view.
ramki krishnan
+1 on Srini's comment. BTW, Envoy is supported by Google – all the issues we are seeing now are only temporary.
Thanks,
Ramki
Srinivasa Addepalli
Mike Elliott , I understand from your meeting minutes, somebody did comparison between Envoy and NGINX with respect to CPU and memory. Can that be shared?