Conduit is a lightweight service mesh for Kubernetes. Conduit embraces the out-of-process architecture with data plane proxy written in Rust and a control plane in Go. The data plane proxy runs as a sidecar for all TCP traffic in the Kubernetes cluster and the control plane runs in a separate namespace in Kubernetes exposing REST APIs to control the behavior of the data plane proxy. By proxying all requests, Conduit provides a wealth of metrics for monitoring and observability of interactions in the service mesh for HTTP, HTTP/2 and gRPC traffic. Even though Conduit is relatively new to this space, we recommend it because it’s simple to install and operate.
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