Mastering Service Mesh

Service mesh overview

Let's begin with the definition of the service mesh. William Morgan in 2017 defined the service mesh as follows (https://buoyant.io/2017/04/25/whats-a-service-mesh-and-why-do-i-need-one):

"A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for handling service-to-service communication. It's responsible for the reliable delivery of requests through the complex topology of services that comprise a modern, cloud-native application. In practice, the service mesh's implementation is an array of lightweight network proxies deployed alongside microservices, without the applications needing to be aware."

We can view a service mesh as a decoupling agent between Dev (provider) and Ops (consumer). Dev does not have to write any ...