We’re living in the era of digital technology, version 4.0. Almost every business needs to be digitized. Technology companies used to build their own software products on on-premises infrastructure, but maintaining and serving a global user base with on-premises infrastructure has become very difficult. Continuing with an on-premises model requires investing in servers and a solid systems administration team to manage the infrastructure.

Today, the Envoy community has introduced Envoy Gateway, a new project to better support Kubernetes deployments via the new Kubernetes Gateway API, which is the next generation Ingress specification in Kubernetes world. Kong has been deeply invested in the success of Envoy since we started developing Kuma in 2019 – now used in Kong Mesh (built on top of Kuma).

In this article, you will learn about some of the tools to test microservices running in a Kubernetes cluster. In particular, we will compare the Speedscale CLI tool with other tools and the main benefits of using Speedscale CLI. In the last few years, software companies have been shifting from building monolith applications to utilizing smaller microservices. In a microservices architecture, you operate with decentralized applications.