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Service Mesh Architecture

Implement service mesh with Istio for traffic management, security, and observability.

Service Mesh Architecture diagram

Service mesh architecture with Istio control plane and Envoy sidecars

A service mesh provides infrastructure-level capabilities for service-to-service communication, including encryption, load balancing, and observability.

Service mesh features:

  • mTLS - Automatic encryption between services
  • Traffic Management - Routing, retries, circuit breaking
  • Observability - Distributed tracing, metrics, access logs
  • Policy Enforcement - Authorization and rate limiting

Key Concepts

  • Sidecar proxy pattern (Envoy)
  • Gradual mesh adoption possible
  • Resource overhead considerations
  • Integration with external services
  • Multi-cluster mesh federation

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