Service Mesh

• It is an infrastructure layer in your application that helps communication b/w services
• Provide capabilities like:
  • traffic management
  • resiliency
  • policy
  • security
  • strong identity
  • observability
• Azure K8s supports plugins:
  • Istio (greek: sail)
  • Open Service Mesh (OSM) — no longer maintained
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/servicemesh-about
• https://blog.quastor.org/p/netflix-integrated-service-mesh-backend