A service mesh in Kyma typically consists of two components: the data plane and the control plane12. The data plane is responsible for handling the communication between the microservices in the cluster. It consists of a set of sidecar proxies (Envoy) that are injected into each pod and intercept the traffic. The control plane is responsible for managing the configuration and policies of the data plane. It consists of a set of components (Istio) that provide features like service discovery, security, traffic management, observability, and more12. References: Discovering the Service Mesh, SAP BTP – KYMA – SERVICE MESH | SAP Blogs

Kyma Eventing simplifies the process of publishing and subscribing to events in the cluster. Publishing events means sending information about a change in the state of the application or the system to the Eventing backend. Subscribing to events means registering interest for a specific event type from a specific source. Kyma Eventing allows users to publish events by sending HTTP requests to the Event Publisher Proxy component, which validates and forwards the events to the NATS backend. Kyma Eventing also allows users to subscribe to events by creating Subscription custom resources that specify the event source, type, and the HTTP endpoint of the service that will receive the events. Kyma Eventing handles the delivery of the events from the NATS backend to the subscribers with the help of the Eventing Controller and the Eventing Dispatcher components. References: 

Pods are created in a sequential order when a StatefulSet is set up. This means that for a StatefulSet with N replicas, the Pods are deployed one by one, starting from the Pod with the index 0 and ending with the Pod with the index N-1. Each Pod has to be in the Running and Ready state before the next Pod is created. This ensures that the Pods have a predictable and unique identity and can be connected to their corresponding persistent volumes. References: