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Mastering Service Mesh

You're reading from   Mastering Service Mesh Enhance, secure, and observe cloud-native applications with Istio, Linkerd, and Consul

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789615791
Length 626 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vikram Khatri Vikram Khatri
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Table of Contents (31) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Cloud-Native Application Management
2. Monolithic Versus Microservices FREE CHAPTER 3. Cloud-Native Applications 4. Section 2: Architecture
5. Service Mesh Architecture 6. Service Mesh Providers 7. Service Mesh Interface and SPIFFE 8. Section 3: Building a Kubernetes Environment
9. Building Your Own Kubernetes Environment 10. Section 4: Learning about Istio through Examples
11. Understanding the Istio Service Mesh 12. Installing a Demo Application 13. Installing Istio 14. Exploring Istio Traffic Management Capabilities 15. Exploring Istio Security Features 16. Enabling Istio Policy Controls 17. Exploring Istio Telemetry Features 18. Section 5: Learning about Linkerd through Examples
19. Understanding the Linkerd Service Mesh 20. Installing Linkerd 21. Exploring the Reliability Features of Linkerd 22. Exploring the Security Features of Linkerd 23. Exploring the Observability Features of Linkerd 24. Section 6: Learning about Consul through Examples
25. Understanding the Consul Service Mesh 26. Installing Consul 27. Exploring the Service Discovery Features of Consul 28. Exploring Traffic Management in Consul 29. Assessment 30. Other Books You May Enjoy

Questions

  1. A service mesh works at which layer of the network?

A) Layer 7
B) Layer 3/4

  1. Libraries such as Hystrix and Finnagle were excellent in abstracting traffic routing capabilities, but why did Envoy prove to be successful for cloud-native applications?

A) The libraries were for Java applications, and they needed to be ported to other applications, whereas the Envoy proxy sidecar was language-agnostic and could work with polyglot applications.
B) An update in the library will force an application to update, whereas the Envoy proxy can be upgraded independently of the application microservices.
C) Libraries can manage traffic, but load balancing is an outside function, whereas it is integrated with the Envoy proxy with dynamic rules and configuration propagation through Istio components.
D) All of the above.
E) None of the above.

  1. The Istio control plane is a single point...
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