A service mesh is a configurable infrastructure layer for a microservices application. It makes communication between service instances flexible, reliable, and fast. The mesh provides service discovery, load balancing, encryption, authentication and authorization, support for the circuit breaker pattern, and other capabilities. The service mesh is usually implemented by providing a proxy instance, called a…
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This post is adapted from a presentation at nginx.conf 2017 by A.J. Hunyady, Senior Director of Product Management at NGINX, Inc. You can view the complete presentation, Deploying NGINX Proxy in an Istio Service Mesh, on YouTube. Also see the press release announcing nginMesh, the nginMesh GitHub repo, and Ed Robinson's conference talk on NGINX open source projects.…
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