Choosing a Service Mesh: Linkerd vs Istio vs Kuma vs App Mesh

Choosing a service mesh can be a daunting task. While the modern meshes aren't interchangeable, they do generally offer the same broad table-stakes features to add security, reliability, and observability to applications. There are very important differences, though! And it can be very tricky indeed to work out a sane way to evaluate multiple meshes to make this critical decision.

Compare the Market had to tackle this issue recently, deciding between Linkerd, Istio, Kuma Mesh, and App Mesh. In this Linkerd Day talk, you'll join the engineers responsible for recommending a mesh to learn how they went about making their decision, starting with their primary use case of mTLS and metrics, continuing into performance and time to production, and finishing with how they viewed support and maintenance costs and how they balanced wants and needs when making their decision (Linkerd, of course!).