Service meshes in multi-cloud environments
As our mountaineering team traverses the challenging terrain of multiple cloud environments, managing the intricate pathways our applications take becomes increasingly challenging. This is where a service mesh comes in handy. It’s like our GPS, managing the communication between services, ensuring they find the quickest and safest routes.
As mentioned in Chapter 3, Designing for Diversity with Multi-Cloud Application Strategies, a service mesh acts as a control tower for service communication in complex applications, ensuring reliable connections even across multiple cloud platforms. It’s like a hidden network conductor, orchestrating smooth data flow between services regardless of their location.
Consider Istio, for example. It’s like the compass guiding our mountaineers through the intricate network pathways of our applications. Istio is a service mesh that provides a way to connect, secure, control, and observe...
