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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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Anjali Khatri Anjali Khatri
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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

Circuit breaker

The calls between different services in a monolithic application are in-memory only. We replace the in-memory service calls with the network calls when we move from a monolithic to a distributed microservices architecture. While we get the benefits of loose coupling and the reusability of services, the application may experience cascading failures when there is latency between the services or one or more services are not available. Application failures that occur due to the latency of network calls is one of the disadvantages of microservices compared to monolithic applications.

The circuit breaker helps to reduce the aforementioned application failures and lets us build a resilient and fault-tolerant system in the case of high latency or the unavailability of key microservices. A circuit breaker in software engineering is similar to a circuit breaker in electrical...

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