Chapter 6: Connect Four or More

This is it! All that you have read so far has led you to this point. I know I've said that before, but it is true. Everything you have read in this book has led you to this point. Regardless, welcome to the world of service mesh. Any engineer with a background in routing and networking appreciates the power of the service mesh. For years, we have focused on connecting machines, allocating or identifying the addresses, and segmenting them into subnets, switchports, and route tables. This functionality is still required, of course; however, much of it is now defined as Infrastructure as Code and is programmatically managed by public or private cloud operators. Now we have a chance to bring the conversation up a level, quite literally, so we are no longer connecting strings of numbers, but we are connecting the services directly. In this chapter, we're going to be meshing with the following topics:

• Connecting our services within the mesh...