Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes

Service mesh integration

I mentioned at the end of the Chapter 13, Service Mesh - Working with Istio, that service meshes are important. They complement Kubernetes and add a lot of value. While Kubernetes provides the management and scheduling of resources and the extensible API, a service mesh provides the next layer of managing the traffic flowing between the containers in the cluster.

This symbiosis is very powerful. On GKE, Istio is already just a button-click away. I expect most Kubernetes distribution to provide the option to install Istio (or maybe the AWS app mesh, in the case of EKS) as part of the initial setup.

At this point, I expect a lot of other solutions to consider Istio as a standard component and build on top of it. An ...