Microservices architectures are becoming the de facto way developers are thinking about how their applications are constructed. But security remains a top concern for many organizations. Given the general trends of the proliferation of threats within the production network and the increased points of privileged access, it is increasingly necessary to adopt a zero-trust network security approach for microservices architectures.
One of the most common security approaches is to set up mTLS. While this is an important security tool, it’s often difficult and time-consuming to manage. To start, you have to create, distribute, and rotate keys and certificates to a large number of services. You then need to ensure you are properly implementing mTLS on all of your clients and servers. One of the compelling features of Istio is the ability to uniformly administer mTLS for all of your services without sacrificing developer productivity. While it’s true YugabyteDB provides its own TLS encryption, by having a central tool like Istio service mesh, you can set up an easy and consistent policy where Istio automatically manages the certificate rotation.