Service Mesh

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Best Practices1

Service Mesh Best Practices

Guidance for using a service mesh to manage service-to-service traffic, security, and observability through sidecar proxies, keeping that logic out of application code.

Patterns1

Pattern

Sidecar Pattern

Deploy auxiliary components alongside primary services for cross-cutting concerns

Tutorials2

Tutorial

How to install Istio and enable mTLS for service-to-service traffic

Deploy Istio, enable automatic sidecar injection, and turn on strict mutual TLS between services.

Tutorial

How to add a lightweight service mesh with Linkerd

Install Linkerd, mesh a workload, and gain automatic mTLS plus golden-metrics observability with low overhead.

Products2

Product

Istio

Service mesh for Kubernetes

Product

Linkerd

Ultralight service mesh for Kubernetes

Reference Architectures2

Reference Architecture

Event-Driven Microservices

Architecture pattern for building loosely-coupled microservices using event sourcing and CQRS

Reference Architecture

Zero Trust Network Architecture

Security architecture assuming no implicit trust, verifying every request

Playbooks2

Playbook

Zero-Trust Architecture Rollout Playbook

A phased program to adopt zero-trust security: verify every request, enforce least privilege, and remove implicit network trust.

Playbook

Service Mesh Adoption Playbook

A program to introduce a service mesh for secure service-to-service communication, traffic control, and observability across microservices.

Stacks3

Stack

Kubernetes + Istio Service Mesh Stack

Cloud-native platform stack pairing Kubernetes orchestration with the Istio service mesh for traffic management, security, and observability.

Stack

gRPC Service Mesh Stack

Microservices stack combining gRPC inter-service communication with a service mesh on Kubernetes for typed, observable, secure service-to-service traffic.

Stack

Vault + Consul

A HashiCorp infrastructure stack pairing Vault for secrets management and dynamic credentials with Consul for service discovery, configuration, and service mesh.

Comparisons1

Comparison

Istio vs Linkerd

Istio and Linkerd are the leading Kubernetes service meshes. Istio is feature-rich and powerful; Linkerd is lightweight, simple, and fast with a purpose-built Rust proxy.

FAQs1

FAQ

What is a service mesh?

A service mesh is an infrastructure layer that manages communication between microservices, handling traffic routing, load balancing, retries, encrypt...

Glossaries1

Glossary

Service Mesh

A dedicated infrastructure layer for handling service-to-service communication in microservices