Sheetmesh

πŸ“ Unsaved Draft Β· the spreadsheet-native Istio / a service mesh Β· a project of the SNCF

Federate multiple spreadsheet clusters into one mesh.

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What it is

Sheetmesh federates several Sheeternetes clusters: register peers, then resolve which cluster hosts a service across all of them. A service mesh whose data plane is cross-sheet references β€” multi-cluster discovery without a sidecar in sight.

Features

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Cross-sheet discovery

sheetmesh resolve web finds the cluster hosting a Service.

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Peer registry

Register clusters; list services and their home cluster.

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No sidecars

No Envoy per pod. The mesh is a list of workbooks.

Sheetmesh vs Istio / a service mesh

The honest comparison β€” in our favor, obviously.

 Sheetmesh πŸ’©Istio / a service mesh
Data planeCross-sheet referencesEnvoy sidecars everywhere
Per-pod overheadNoneA sidecar container
Multi-clusterBuilt-inAdd-on / complex
Spreadsheet-nativeβœ…βŒ

Disclaimer: an enterprise-grade joke. Do not run production on a spreadsheet. (If you do, please film it.)

Get it

Apache-2.0. Part of the Sheet-Native Computing Foundation.