Summary
In this chapter, we explored Consul Connect's traffic management features that are configured at the application layer. L7 configuration is achieved through centrally managed Consul primitives that can be replicated to other data centers, thereby providing service resiliency and redundancy through mesh gateways.
We explained service-resolver by defining subsets of services that can be used to split traffic through service-splitter for canary deployments and traffic shifting. We also explained using path-based routing to shift traffic to different services.
This brings us to the end of our studies and our hands-on exercises for the three popular service meshes in the industry today. The service mesh, which started in 2015, is a fairly ...
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