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Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud - Fourth Edition
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Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud - Fourth Edition

by Magnus Larsson
August 2025
Intermediate to advanced
810 pages
17h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using a Service Mesh to Improve Observability and Management

In this chapter, you will be introduced to the concept of a service mesh and see how its capabilities can be used to handle challenges in a system landscape of microservices in areas including security, policy enforcement, resilience, and traffic management. A service mesh can also be used to provide observability, the ability to visualize how traffic flows between microservices.

A service mesh overlaps partly with the capabilities of Spring Cloud and Kubernetes that we learned about earlier in this book. But most of the functionality in a service mesh complements Spring Cloud and Kubernetes, as we will see in this chapter.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

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