Further reading

Use the following resources to expand your knowledge of autoscaling, the Envoy service mesh, and load testing:

• Envoy presentation from Lyft: https://www.slideshare.net/datawire/lyfts-envoy-from-monolith-to-service-mesh-matt-klein-lyft.
• Performance Remediation Using New Relic and JMeter, a three-part article series by the Docker for Developers co-author Richard Bullington-McGuire. This covers load testing and performance improvement basics. You can adapt these techniques to Kubernetes using Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, and k6.io: https://moduscreate.com/blog/performance-remediation-using-new-relic-jmeter-part-1-3/.
• Using a Network Load Balancer with the NGINX Ingress Controller on Amazon EKS – an economical and flexible alternative to using the ALB Ingress Controller for many scenarios: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/network-load-balancer-nginx-ingress-controller-eks/.
• Kubernetes Autoscaling 101: Cluster Autoscaler, Horizontal Pod...