Migrating Applications With Service Mesh

At the TechReckoning Fest, an online conference, HashiCorp developer advocate Rosemary Wang gives a demo on how to leverage Consul service mesh for connecting, securing, and deploying greenfield and brownfield applications from on-premises datacenters to cloud-based Kubernetes environments, using traffic splitting for progressive delivery.

In this demo, you'll learn:

• How to configure two existing services inside of a service mesh
• How to enable Consul service mesh for your new greenfield service in Kubernetes
• How to join together VMs and Kubernetes clusters
• How to use Consul's mesh gateways to allow traffic to transparently and securely be routed from datacenter another.
• How to migrate traffic from a service in one datacenter to a new service running in your modern Kubernetes environment using traffic splitting, which can be based on the presence of an HTTP header to do A/B testing or based on path routing.

You can follow this documentation of the demo.

Outline

0:00 — Introduction and chat

12:03 — Demo: Bridging the gap between brownfield and greenfield applications with a service mesh with Consul service mesh and mesh gateway inter-datacenter communication.