4 Anthos Service Mesh: Security and observability at scale

Onofrio Petragallo

This chapter covers

  • Sidecar proxy and proxyless architectures
  • Introducing the main features of Istio
  • Security and observability with Istio
  • Exploring Anthos Service Mesh
  • A practical example with code

One of the key aspects of being cloud native is to break up your application into microservices. This means an application that may have run on a single server now has multiple services, backed by multiple Pods, as separate components. As applications scale out their services, it becomes difficult to troubleshoot problems that you may encounter with the application. With this added complexity, we needed a tool to help organize, secure, and add resilience to the expanding ...

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