Do You Really Need a Service Mesh?

Originally published by Tigera here. Written by Phil DiCorpo, Tigera. The challenges involved in deploying and managing microservices have led to the creation of the service mesh, a tool for adding observability, security, and traffic management capabilities at the application layer. While a service mesh is intended to help developers and SREs with a number of use cases related to service-to-service communication within Kubernetes clusters, a service mesh also adds operational complexity and ...

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