5 posts in categories networking

Istio vs. Linkerd: Service Mesh on Kubernetes

Comparing Istio 1.29 (sidecar mode) and Linkerd 2.19: data plane, mTLS, egress, resource overhead, observability, and when to use each.

· 14 minutes reading time

Istio vs. Envoy Gateway: Gateway API on Kubernetes

Comparing Istio and Envoy Gateway as Gateway API implementations: mTLS, egress, Cilium, managed cloud specifics (AKS, GKE, OVH MKS), and real client IP.

· 19 minutes reading time

Envoy Gateway v1.7: Global Rate Limiting with a Custom ratelimit Service

How to wire envoyproxy/ratelimit as a self-hosted service into Envoy Gateway v1.7 using EnvoyPatchPolicy — three xDS patches, namespace-admin self-service, and the pitfalls to avoid.

· 10 minutes reading time

haproxy-spoe-rs: Deployment

Deploying the haproxy-spoe-rs SPOA agent in production — container image, podman-compose, Kubernetes, HAProxy configuration, health checking, logging, and systemd.

· 8 minutes reading time

haproxy-spoe-rs: A Rust SPOA Agent Library for HAProxy

Building a HAProxy Stream Processing Offload Agent (SPOA) library in Rust — zero-dependency async design, mpsc write batching, 95.9% test coverage, and 2.8–4.9× higher throughput than the Go reference implementation.

· 14 minutes reading time