Debug a Kubernetes Cluster in Prod with the Conduit Service Mesh

In his talk at the April Test in Production Meetup, Andrew Seigner, Software Engineer at Buoyant, discussed visibility and debuggability in service mesh software. He explained that service mesh is a piece of software that runs on top of platforms like Kubernetes to provide security, reliability, debuggability, and visibility into clusters uniformly. The talk focused on Conduit, an open-source service mesh developed by Buoyant, which splits its control plane and data plane for managing routing policy, telemetry, observability, and administrative interaction with the cluster. Seigner demonstrated how to deploy an app, layer a service mesh onto it, and use tools like stat and tap to identify and fix failures in the system.