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Introducing Service Meshes

Service Mesh are an advanced and complex topic. If you have experience using the cloud, Kubernetes, and developing and building an application using microservices architecture, then certain benefits of Service Mesh will be obvious to you. In this chapter, we will familiarize ourselves with and refresh some key concepts without going into too much detail. We will look at the problems you experience when you are deploying and operating applications built using microservices architecture and deployed on containers in the cloud, or even traditional data centers. Subsequent chapters will focus on Istio, so it is good to take some time to read through this chapter to prepare yourself for the learning ahead.

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