Network Service Mesh

What is Network Service Mesh

Network Service Mesh (NSM) is a novel approach solving complicated L2/L3 use cases in Kubernetes that are tricky to address with the existing Kubernetes Network Model. Inspired by Istio, Network Service Mesh maps the concept of a Service Mesh to L2/L3 payloads as part of an attempt to re-imagine NFV in a Cloud-native way!

For more information, have a look at our detailed overview of NSM - What is NSM?

Getting started

To get started, follow our Quick Start guide.

If you want a more extensive look, you can follow the slightly more detailed Build page.

Docs

See our full documentation at the docs folder.

Get involved

• Weekly meetings

  • General - Zoom meeting - every Tuesday at 8:00 - 9:00 AM PT
  • General - Meeting minutes
  • Documentation - Zoom meeting - every Wednesday at 8:00 - 9:00 AM PT
  • Documentation - Meeting minutes
  • Calendar
  • Recordings

• Channels

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• Mailing list

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Upcoming events

• Network Service Mesh At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2019

  • Tuesday, May 21 - 11:55am - 12:30pm - Intro: Network Service Mesh (NSM) - Fredrick Kautz, Doc.ai & Ed Warnicke, Cisco
  • Thursday, May 23 - 11:55am - 12:30pm - Deep Dive: Network Service Mesh (NSM) - Nikolay Nikolaev, VMware & Frederic Kautz, Doc.ai

• Network Service Mesh At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2019

  • Tuesday, June 25 - 12:05 - 12:40pm - Intro: Network Service Mesh (NSM) - Fredrick Kautz, Doc.ai & Nikolay Nikolaev, VMware

References

• Official Website
• Narrative Introduction <- Start Here
  • Presented to Kubernetes Resource Management Working Group
• Intro slides
• Intro slides presented
• HW Interfaces
• Distributed CNFs (Distributed Bridges)
• VPN Gateway
• Presentation to Kubernetes SIG Networking 2018-05-31
• Use Case Working Document
• Google Drive Folder - where most of the NSM docs are located. Keep in mind that some of them are still Work in Progress.

Dependencies

The Network Service Mesh project uses Dependabot to manage dependencies. Dependabot pushes out dependency updates to ensure our dependencies remain current and we're not stuck with code with known vulnerabilities.

FAQ

If you run into problems, check the docs and feel free to post issues in the Network Service Mesh repository.

Licence

This project is released under the Apache 2.0 License. Please review the License file for more details.