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Bootstrapping Service Mesh Implementations with Istio
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Bootstrapping Service Mesh Implementations with Istio

by Anand Rai
April 2023
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
418 pages
9h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Managing Application Traffic

Microservices architecture creates a sprawl of loosely coupled applications deployed as containers on platforms such as Kubernetes. With the loose coupling of applications, inter-service traffic management becomes complex. If exposed insecurely to external systems, it can cause exposure of sensitive data, making your system vulnerable to external threats. Istio provides various mechanisms to secure and govern the following kinds of application traffic:

  • Ingress traffic coming to your application from outside
  • Inter-mesh traffic generated between various components of the application
  • Egress traffic going out from your application to other applications outside the mesh

In this chapter, we will read about and practice ...

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