Preface
This book is about mastering service mesh. It assumes that you have prior knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes. As a developer, knowing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) patterns will be beneficial, but not mandatory.
Service mesh is the new buzzword and a relatively new concept that started in 2017, and so it does not have much history behind it. Service mesh is the evolution of already existing technologies with further improvements.
The first service mesh implementation emerged as Istio 0.1 in May 2017. Istio is a combination of different technologies from IBM, Google, and Lyft, and hence, Istio and service mesh were used interchangeably to mean the same thing.
Envoy (which originated at Lyft and ...
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