3 years ago

Category: Kubernetes, Architecture, encryption

From the latest CNCF annual survey, it is pretty clear that a lot of people are showing high interest in service mesh in their project and many are already using in Production. Nearly 69% are evaluating Istio, and 64% are evaluating Linkerd. You might not know that Linkerd was the first service mesh in the market but Istio made the service meshes more popular.

The term service mesh is used to describe the network of microservices that make up such applications and the interactions between them.

Istio Architecture Source: istio.io Envoy is a high-performance proxy written by Lyft in C++ language, which mediates all inbound and outbound traffic for all services in the service mesh.