The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Service Mesh

4 years ago thenewstack.io

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At Kubecon EU last week, there was a lot of focus on service mesh, sidecars, microservices, and many more “meshy” things. To help navigate the resources, videos, sessions, and various other content from the event, we thought it would be good to provide a handy reference guide to explore what these concepts are and why they are so prominently featured in the market today.

All this does is tell Consul that this newly registered service needs to be paired with a sidecar proxy and it should follow any newly defined or existing traffic policies.

The most important thing to remember is that service mesh adoption is not a switch that gets flipped and suddenly everything is a part of the mesh.

At HashiCorp, we’ve tried to capture the steps in this journey and provide materials to help guide organizations along this path.

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