Service discovery
Out of the box, Kubernetes has a high-level functional service mesh that provides service discovery for the necessary pods/containers and enables round-robin network requests for service versioning. There are no retries, timeouts, or any other features that the service mesh typically provides and can handle for a microservice.
The functional capability of a service registry is to keep track of all service pods and virtual machines for the designated application. With support from Istio, Kubernetes allows all new instances of a service, such as a new version, to be automatically registered within the service registry. For example, services without connections to pods are dead services and those services hide from discovery. ...
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