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A service mesh facilitates efficient and secure communication between microservices in a distributed architecture. It provides essential features such as service discovery, load balancing, security features, and monitoring. By implementing a service mesh, organizations can reduce the complexity of their infrastructure and improve the maintainability of their…
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A service mesh provides service-to-service communication through a dedicated infrastructure layer.
The term developed around distributed microservices. Projects such as Linkerd made the pattern practical as a proxy-based layer for observability, encryption, and policy, while the CNCF describes it as infrastructure for service-to-service communication.
Imagine a small network assistant beside every service. The assistants handle routing, encryption, and measurement while the application keeps its domain logic.
Communication capabilities live in a separate layer.
Supports routing, security, and observability.
A mesh standardises cross-cutting capabilities across services. Its proxy and operational infrastructure add complexity and latency.
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