Service Mesh Basics: What It Is and When You Need It
Service mesh is either the solution to all your microservices problems or unnecessary complexity you don’t need. Here’s how to tell which. What a Service Mesh Does A service mesh handles cross-cutting concerns for service-to-service communication: Traffic management — Load balancing, routing, retries Security — mTLS, authorization policies Observability — Metrics, tracing, logging Resilience — Circuit breakers, timeouts, fault injection Instead of implementing these in every service, the mesh handles them at the infrastructure layer. ...