The Service Mesh

Table of contents

1. Preface
   1. What Is a Service Mesh?
   2. Who This Book Is For
   3. What You’ll Learn in This Book
   4. Conventions Used in This Book
   5. O’Reilly Safari
   6. How to Contact Us
   7. Acknowledgments
2. The Service Mesh
   1. Basic Architecture
   2. The Problem
      1. The Fallacies of Distributed Computing
      2. A Pragmatic Problem Example
      3. Creating a Reliable Application Runtime
      4. Are You Ready for a Service Mesh?
   3. Observability
      1. How the Data and Control Planes Interact
      2. Where Observability Constructs Are Introduced
      3. Where You See the Data
      4. Beyond Service Metrics with Tracing
      5. Visibility by Default
   4. Resiliency
      1. Managing Failed Requests Gracefully
      2. Load Balancing and Distributing Requests
      3. Resiliency at the Application Level
   5. Security
      1. Encrypting Service Communication
      2. Mutual Transport Layer Security by Default
      3. Verifying Service Roles
   6. The Service Mesh in Practice
      1. Use Case 1: Unnoticed Outages in Production
      2. Use Case 2: Resiliency Creatively Used for Local Development
      3. Use Case 3: Enabling Cloud Migration
      4. Use Case 4: An Incremental Approach to Stack Modernization
      5. Flexibility and Control
   7. Choosing What to Implement
      1. Readiness
      2. Existing Capabilities
      3. Team Dynamics and Structure
      4. Supportability
      5. Rapidly Evolving Technology
   8. Conclusions