Confluent's Service Mesh Journey - Building Security and Reliability One Sidecar at a Time

Learn about Confluent Cloud's implementation of Istio service mesh in this technical presentation that explores their journey of securing and managing microservices at scale. Discover how Confluent processes millions of requests per second through their control plane by leveraging Istio service mesh technology. Explore the incremental adoption process of implementing uniform identity models with SPIRE and advanced observability using OpenTelemetry. Gain insights into the practical aspects of securing traffic through mTLS, implementing multi-cluster routing, and managing Istio in large-scale production environments. Follow along as the speakers share valuable lessons learned during Day 2 operations and their experiences in successfully operationalizing Istio service mesh technology.