3 years ago

Category: Software, Security, Infrastructure

They enable multiple autonomous development teams to work on the same application, maintaining efficiency, speed, and utilization of modern resources such as open source, containers, and programming languages. The Microservice paradigm simplifies application building, debugging, management, deployment, scalability, and of course time to market. In this new world of Microservices, a common practice is to use different forms of microservices identity in order to simplify the provisioning of policies and configurations, these could be routing policies in a services mesh, load-balancing rules, and security policies such as data access and network policies.

Using environment attributes such as service name, node name, and other attributes cannot be considered secure because any malicious software has access to this information, yet they are used due to lack of a better option.