Explore a case study on upgrading an automobile manufacturing company's IT infrastructure using Kubernetes and service mesh. Learn how Chaomeng Zhang from Huawei transformed a traditional microservice platform into a cloud-native infrastructure. Discover the process of replacing self-developed inner DNS and ELB for service discovery and load balancing, as well as per-VM nginx for inbound traffic management, metrics, and access logs. Understand how this upgrade addresses challenges such as heterogeneous middleware and proxy overload, while providing lightweight resource management, auto-scaling, canary deployments, non-intrusive traffic management, enhanced security, and improved observability. Gain insights into the benefits of this transformation, including increased operational efficiency and simplified IT management in the automotive industry.