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Service mesh

Service mesh

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Service mesh

- [Instructor] To help manage the complexities of service-to-service communication inside of a microservice-based system, we can use a platform known as a service mesh. When using a service mesh, there are a few prerequisites. Your microservices must run in containers, with Docker pretty much being the standard these days. They must also be deployed in a container orchestration system like Kubernetes. You can find many vendors that package a container runtime in container orchestrator, or you can leverage the open source distributions of these platforms. Once you satisfy these prerequisites, you can use a security mesh to establish a network of proxies that sit next to the containers that host your microservices. These proxies, known as sidecars, intercept the traffic entering and exiting a service, providing an excellent point to apply security tactics, like mutual TLS, access policies, and audit logging. As more…

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