August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
38 pages
57m
English
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Preface
What Is a Service Mesh?
A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for handling service-to-service communication in order to make it visible, manageable, and controlled. The exact details of its architecture vary between implementations, but generally speaking, every service mesh is implemented as a series (or a “mesh”) of interconnected network proxies designed to better manage service traffic.
If you’re unfamiliar with the service mesh in general, a few in-depth primers can help jumpstart your introduction, including Phil Calçado’s history of the service mesh pattern, Redmonk’s hot take on the problem space, and (if you’re more the podcast type) The Cloudcast’s introductions to both Linkerd and Istio. Collectively, these paint a good picture.
Who This Book Is For
This book is primarily intended for anyone who manages a production application stack: developers, operators, DevOps practitioners, infrastructure/platform engineers, information security officers, or anyone otherwise responsible for supporting a production application stack. You’ll find this book particularly useful if you’re currently managing or plan to manage applications based in microservice architectures.
What You’ll Learn in This Book
If you’ve been following the service mesh ecosystem, you probably know that it had a very big year in 2017. First, it’s now an ecosystem! Linkerd crossed the threshold of serving more than one trillion service requests, Istio is now on a monthly release cadence ...
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