12 Securing microservices with Istio service mesh
This chapter covers
- Terminating TLS at the Istio Ingress gateway
- Securing service-to-service communications with mTLS in an Istio environment
- Securing service-to-service communications with JWT in an Istio environment
- Enforcing RBAC with Istio
- Managing keys in an Istio deployment
In chapter 6, we discussed how to secure service-to-service communications with certificates; and in chapter 7, we extended that discussion to use JWTs to secure service-to-service communications. Then in chapters 10 and 11, we discussed how to deploy a set of microservices as Docker containers in Kubernetes and to secure service-to-service communications with JWT over mTLS. In all of these cases, each microservice ...
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