People familiar with service meshes say the technology is important to organizations’ efforts to improve the security, observability and traffic control of distributed systems over the next twelve months. That is one takeaway from 138 responses to an online poll The New Stack conducted Feb. 13-24. Access to the raw data and tabulated results are in a publicly available workbook.
A third of respondents’ organizations are using service meshes to control communications traffic between microservices in production Kubernetes environments. Another 34% use service mesh technology in a test environment, or are piloting or actively evaluating solutions. Instead of trying to gauge actual adoption, we are using this data to explore how decisions are being made in the near future.
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