Service Mesh

← Back to Other Networking Topics

A dedicated infrastructure layer for handling service-to-service communication. Sidecar proxies (Envoy) are deployed alongside each service to handle traffic management, mutual TLS, observability, and retries transparently. Implementations include Istio and Linkerd.

Key Properties

• Sidecar Proxies
• Mutual TLS
• Traffic Management

Related

• Service Mesh on K8s (Kubernetes-specific service mesh deployment)
• API Gateway (handles north-south traffic; mesh handles east-west)

---

networking service-mesh