Gateway API v1.6 TCPRoute and UDPRoute vs LoadBalancer Services and Vendor CRDs
Gateway API v1.6 graduates TCPRoute and UDPRoute to Standard and v1. What that means for MQTT, Postgres and DNS traffic you used to route with vendor CRDs.
Kubernetes Gateway API vs Ingress vs Service Mesh (2026)
An ADR for Kubernetes north-south and east-west traffic in 2026: Gateway API vs Ingress vs service mesh, role separation, GAMMA, and migration paths.
Cilium Sidecarless Service Mesh: An eBPF Deep-Dive
A 2026 deep-dive into Cilium's sidecarless service mesh: how eBPF replaces sidecars, mTLS, L7 policy, and a working setup with trade-offs.
Cilium 1.17 Service Mesh: End-to-End Production Tutorial (2026)
Cilium 1.17 sidecarless service mesh — install, mTLS, L7 policies, Hubble dashboards, and migration from Istio sidecar mode.
Cilium Mesh vs Istio Ambient: 2026 ADR for Sidecarless Meshes
Cilium Service Mesh vs Istio Ambient — sidecarless architectures compared on data path, mTLS, L7 policy, observability, and migration cost.
Istio Ambient Mesh vs Linkerd: Service Mesh ADR (2026)
Istio ambient mesh vs Linkerd — an ADR weighing sidecarless overhead, mTLS, L7 policy, operational cost, and when each mesh is the right call.
Sidecar vs eBPF Service Mesh: An ADR for 2026 Production Workloads
ADR for sidecar vs eBPF service mesh in 2026 — context, options (Istio Ambient, Cilium Mesh, Linkerd2), trade-offs, consequences, and the decision criteria we settled on.
Cilium eBPF Service Mesh: L3-L7 Networking, Observability, Security (2026)
Cilium eBPF service mesh explained: sidecar-free L3-L7 networking, Hubble observability, network policy, mTLS, and why eBPF is reshaping Kubernetes networking in 2026.