Service mesh

Long Vu
Nov 17, 2024

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A service mesh is an infrastructure layer that manages communication between services in microservices architectures.

Core components

  • Data plane
Sidecar Proxies (e.g., Envoy, Linkerd-proxy)
- Traffic Management: Load balancing, rate limit, Traffic splitting/shifting, Retry policies & Timeouts, Circuit breaking
- Security: mTLS encryption, Authentication, Authorization, Certificate management
- Observability: Metrics collection, Distributed tracing, Access logging, Health checks
  • Control plane
Configuration Management
- API Server: Config validation, Config distribution, Version control.
- Service Discovery: Service registry, Load balancer config, Endpoint health tracking
- Policy Management: Traffic policies, Security policies, Rate limit policies

How it interacts with other services.

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Long Vu
Long Vu

Written by Long Vu

Product builder, Engineering Manager, AI enthusiastic

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