What the heck is a Service Mesh?

Layer that facilitates communication between microservices.

Layer that facilitates load balancing, failover, and discovery of services.

Layer that facilitates routing between and deployment of services.

What's the catch?

It adds some complexity and overhead.

It adds an extra hop to your network requests.

What are some service mesh implementations?

Examples

• Istio
• Linkerd
• Envoy

Fin.