Context: Using Nomad to orchestrate Java applications (Tomcat, using exec), with Consul providing the service mesh. How do sidecar proxies (specifically Envoy) work without containers? I’d like to run a group of Tomcat servers using Nomad’s exec driver. Following the service mesh idioms I should h…

[image] egmanoj: I’m very new to Nomad and Consul. Do point me in the right direction if this has been answered elsewhere. Sure, i’m doing it in production, you need to explicitly declare the sidecar service systemd unit for each service (either inbound or outbound). I usually use this confi…

[image] davide: Sure, i’m doing it in production, you need to explicitly declare the sidecar service systemd unit for each service (either inbound or outbound). Thanks! Will try this out as soon as I have my Vagrant/Virtualbox local cluster up and running. Noob question: do I declare the sid…

Yes, each service instance must have one dedicated sidecar instance if it has at least one inbound connection or outbound dependency, the sidecar covers multiple inbound and outbound, you never need more than one per service instance. Even if you use a plethora or sidecars the memory footprint wil…

[image] davide: Yes, each service instance must have one dedicated sidecar instance if it has at least one inbound connection or outbound dependency, the sidecar covers multiple inbound and outbound, you never need more than one per service instance . :+1: Thanks for the quick revert. I’m g…

Thanks @blake . This is really helpful :100:

(How) Do Sidecar Proxies Work Without Containers?

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egmanoj December 31, 2021, 12:37pm 5

Thanks for the quick revert.

I’m guessing that the above systemd service definition should be parametrised using a template in order create multiple instances of the same (sidecar) service. Is that correct?

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