# Service mesh thoughts

**URL:** <https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/service-mesh-thoughts/2824>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [September 19, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/service-mesh-thoughts/2824 "2018-09-19T20:23:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jimangel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.kubernetes.io/jimangel/32/4080_2.png) [@jimangel](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/jimangel)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/service-mesh-thoughts/2824/1 "2018-09-19T20:23:59Z")

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I would like some feedback on anyone currently using any service mesh in production or development.

- Is it in prod or dev?
- What challenges have you faced?
- Can you share your most painful learning experience with implementing it?
- What control plane / data plane did you chose and why?

With knative, Isito 1.0 GA, linkerd 2.0 GA, and many other cool things going on, there’s almost too many options 🙂

I’m interested in seeing how the community is approaching this…

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**Author:** ![wcast](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.kubernetes.io/wcast/32/2049_2.png) [@wcast](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/wcast)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/service-mesh-thoughts/2824/2 "2018-09-21T12:30:42Z")

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We’re heading the same way considering Istio also. Would be interested in know your choices.

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**Author:** ![ar4mirez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.kubernetes.io/ar4mirez/32/132_2.png) [@ar4mirez](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/ar4mirez)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2018, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/service-mesh-thoughts/2824/3 "2018-09-22T13:12:45Z")

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Yeah with the new stuff coming from Hashicorp (Consul) and Linkerd2 for me Istio is not becoming the obvious choice, I’ve use some of them and here is a very short summary.

- Consul is not my favorite cause ins’t very K8s native but I’m hoping for the new stuff coming.
- Istio is great but there is no so many stuff doing at the same time that I feel if I touch it’ll break 😕 a feature I do love from Istio is the multi-cluster mesh.
- Linkerd 2 interesting honestly the only downside is the auto-injecting sidecar but I can live without it and I’m currently using it.

That’s my 2 cents I know is short comment but I’m really highlighting the stuff impact me.