Source: thenewstack.io
How eBPF Streamlines the Service MeshCategory: Security, Kubernetes, encryption, yaml
There are several service mesh products and projects today, promising simplified connectivity between application microservices, while at the same time offering additional capabilities like secured connections, observability, and traffic management. Let’s explore how eBPF allows us to streamline the service mesh, making the service mesh data plane more efficient and easier to deploy.
And worse, if an attacker compromises the cluster and is able to run a malicious workload — say, a crypto-currency miner — they will be unlikely to label it so that it participates in the service mesh.
It’s common to use a service mesh to ensure that all application traffic is authenticated and encrypted.
Because it operates at the network layer, this encryption is entirely transparent not only to the application but also to the proxy — and it can be enabled with or without a service mesh.
And worse, if an attacker compromises the cluster and is able to run a malicious workload — say, a crypto-currency miner — they will be unlikely to label it so that it participates in the service mesh.
It’s common to use a service mesh to ensure that all application traffic is authenticated and encrypted.
Because it operates at the network layer, this encryption is entirely transparent not only to the application but also to the proxy — and it can be enabled with or without a service mesh.
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