Getting Started with Cilium Service Mesh on Amazon EKS
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This article provides an overview of Cilium, an open-source service mesh solution, and demonstrates how to deploy Cilium Service Mesh on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS).
Specifically, the article covers:
- Cilium architecture and components (Cilium agent, Cilium operator, CNI plugin, CLI client)
- Cilium Service Mesh and its sidecar-free data plane powered by Envoy
- Hubble, Cilium's observability platform for network visibility
- Deployment architecture on Amazon EKS with Cilium in CNI chaining mode and as Kubernetes Ingress
- A demo application to showcase traffic shifting between service versions using Envoy
- Considerations for using Cilium on Amazon EKS
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