Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes

Using a service mesh to manage the cross-cutting concerns of microservices

A service mesh is a set of intelligent proxies and additional control infrastructure components. The proxies are deployed on every node in your cluster. The proxies intercept all communication between the services and can do a lot of work on your behalf that previously had to be done by the service (or a shared library used by the service). Some of the responsibilities of a service mesh are as follows:

• Reliable delivery of requests between services through retries and automatic failovers
• Latency-aware load balancing
• Route requests based on flexible and dynamic routing rules (this is also known as traffic shaping)
• Circuit breaking through deadlines
• Service-to-service ...