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Robert E. Jackson
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Robert E. Jackson

Robert E. Jackson earned his bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1997, and since then has found himself in a multitude of pre- and post-sales positions with various successful start-ups, mostly in the network access technology space. He has played multiple roles over the course of his career, including sales engineer, solutions engineer, integration engineer, network engineer, and product manager. Throughout all of these engineering positions he never learned to drive a train, but he was able to experience the digital transformation from traditional data centers to cloud computing from multiple viewpoints. He is currently employed at HashiCorp as a senior solutions engineer, based in the northeast area of the United States.
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Meshing with Kubernetes

Throughout this entire chapter, I've only mentioned Kubernetes once, and that was in passing. This is partly due to my loathness of Kubernetes and the number of hours I've struggled with the technology. However, service orchestrators such as Kubernetes (or Nomad) definitely have a place in the world of service mesh. In fact, many people don't think about service mesh unless it is within the realm of one of these application orchestration tools. We aren't going to get into the details of Kubernetes for a number of reasons (some of which I've already mentioned). However, I do want to address why service mesh is so important within this arena.

Application orchestration provides an entire operating environment in which our applications reside. Once deployed within the environment, the primary job of the orchestrator is to ensure that the desired number of instances are operating and that the resources are being managed. The application...

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Robert E. Jackson

Robert E. Jackson earned his bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1997, and since then has found himself in a multitude of pre- and post-sales positions with various successful start-ups, mostly in the network access technology space. He has played multiple roles over the course of his career, including sales engineer, solutions engineer, integration engineer, network engineer, and product manager. Throughout all of these engineering positions he never learned to drive a train, but he was able to experience the digital transformation from traditional data centers to cloud computing from multiple viewpoints. He is currently employed at HashiCorp as a senior solutions engineer, based in the northeast area of the United States.
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