Service Mesh: Traffic Management, Security, and Observability with Istio
When you have dozens of microservices talking to each other, managing traffic, security, and observability becomes complex. A service mesh handles this at the infrastructure layer, so your applications don’t have to. What Problems Does a Service Mesh Solve? Without a mesh, every service needs to implement: Retries and timeouts Circuit breakers Load balancing TLS certificates Metrics and tracing Access control With a mesh, the sidecar proxy handles all of this: ...