π Unsaved Draft Β· the spreadsheet-native Istio / a service mesh Β· a project of the SNCF
Federate multiple spreadsheet clusters into one mesh.
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.
sheetmesh resolve web finds the cluster hosting a Service.
Register clusters; list services and their home cluster.
No Envoy per pod. The mesh is a list of workbooks.
| Sheetmesh π© | Istio / a service mesh | |
|---|---|---|
| Data plane | Cross-sheet references | Envoy sidecars everywhere |
| Per-pod overhead | None | A sidecar container |
| Multi-cluster | Built-in | Add-on / complex |
| Spreadsheet-native | β | β |