Mastering Service Mesh

Service defaults

Take a look at the following configuration, which is used to define protocol and gateway defaults for an existing service. These are identified through Name:

Kind = "service-defaults"Name = "web"Protocol = "http"MeshGateway = {  mode = "local"}

The preceding configuration is valid for both Kubernetes and non-Kubernetes environments. It is created automatically through the consul-connect-inject-init init-container when a Consul sidecar Envoy proxy is injected when a deployment is created. The following is an example of this:

Init Containers:  consul-connect-inject-init:...      # Create the central config's service registration      cat <<EOF >/consul/connect-inject/central-config.hcl      kind = "service-defaults"      name = "web" protocol = ...