Service meshes
Service meshes automatically add network security, observability, and reliability to cloud native applications and are important for large-scale production environments.
A key aspect of service meshes is the ability to add these features automatically. They do this by implementing them at the platform layer instead of the application layer. This is jargon that means you just install the service mesh and every application that runs on it “just gets the features”. It’s a powerful model that means developers and individual applications don’t need to even think about these services.
Consider a large microservices application that needs to encrypt traffic. Without a service mesh you’d need to code every microservice with the intelligence and certificates to encrypt and decrypt traffic. This adds complexity to every microservice and distracts developers from developing features that benefit customers and the business. The alternative is a...
