KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025

While service mesh has become essential for microservices management, traditional sidecar implementations face critical challenges: significant resource overhead (30-50% memory/CPU consumption) and tightly coupled lifecycle management that complicates operations.

In this demonstration, we present an innovative architectural evolution through our open-source project **Kmesh** - a high-performance sidecar-less service mesh solution. By strategically integrating eBPF with remote waypoint proxies, we achieve:
- **90% reduction** in resource consumption compared to sidecar-based meshes
- Decoupled infrastructure and workload lifecycles
- Native kernel-level networking optimizations

**Live Demo Highlights:**
1. **L4 Acceleration Layer**
- Instant traffic redirection via eBPF hooks
- Kernel-space connection management

2. **Intelligent L7 Control Plane**
- Canary deployment with dynamic weight adjustment
- Fine-grained HTTP traffic splitting (path/header-based)
- Fault injection simulation (latency/abort patterns)
- Unified policy enforcement through remote waypoint gateways

This next-generation architecture demonstrates 10x cpu usage improvement, 2x connection number improvement and 1.5x latency while maintaining full Istio API compatibility, offering a production-ready alternative to conventional service meshes.