CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025

Service Mesh unlocks powerful capabilities for Kubernetes, enhancing observability, security, and traffic control. However, concerns about complexity and overhead have slowed adoption. This session debunks those myths! We’ll showcase how Service Mesh technologies have matured, offering approachable solutions with minimal impact. Istio’s Ambient mode exemplifies this shift, minimizing operational complexity and overhead. Many existing benchmarks raise doubts due to conflicting results. This session tackles this head-on! We’ll run a live, representative benchmark at scale (10s of nodes, thousands of Pods, thousands of RPS throughput) and dissect the metrics with the audience.